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HISTORY 



OF THE 



CLASS OF 70 

Department of LiTERATrRi:, Sctexce and the Arts, 
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN. 

Supplement. 1!)();;-li)<!l. 



Edited Ijy 

Charles S. Carter. Secretary. 

Milwaukee. Wis. 



PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY OF THE CLASS. 
1931. 



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"Fading away like the stars of the morning. 
Losing their light in the glorious sun. 

So do we pass from the earth and its toiling, 
Only remembered by what we have done." 






TO THE MEMORY 
Of Our 

H)eparteD Classmates 

This Book is 
FONDLY DEDICATED. 



CONTENTS 



Page 

Detlication 3 

Preface •"> 

Poem — "Fifty Years After, and Thereafter" T 

Our Class Letter 29 

Class Meetino-s 258 

Notes 256 

In Memoriani 253 

Index 254 



PREFACE. 



When the Class of Seventy of the University of Michigan 
assembled last June, 1920, to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary 
with a banquet in Michigan Union, it was realized that our 
numbers were being rapidly reduced and that those who were 
left were in no condition to stand an old-time rush on the 
campus. The once stalwart forms and vigorous minds of 
our members were disappearing, leaving records of life work 
for the benefit of their children. The subject was introduced 
and a resolution was ofifered authorizing and requesting the 
secretary to consider the plan of getting out a Supplement to 
our former History, published in 190:3, if agreeable to him to 
do so. 

Steps were taken at once to collect the necessary data for 
this volume. Time has shown that we did not begin this 
work any too soon ; for since that lovely June day two of 
those who took part in passing that resolution, Allyn and 
Wing, and three others who were too ill to be there, Foster, 
LeFevre and Whitman ; five in all, have ibid us goodbye with- 
in a space of four and one half months. Of the seventy-six 
who received diplomas in 1870, forty-six are now awaiting us 
in the Better Land ; thirty still linger here. 

It is hoped that the activities of the Boys of "TO shown by 
their records in our former History and in this Supplement 
will satisfy our alma mater, our friends and our children that 
we have been tolerably busy during the past half century, 
striving to reach the goal pointed out to us by our able in- 
structors in the long ago. We have kept up the battle of life 



6 PREFACE 

through the vanishing years, and although many have fallen 
in the struggle our flag is still flying, and we predict that it 
will continue to fly until the last survivor brings it over the 
top to our final reunion, when we shall all once more join and 
move on to a liiHier destiny. 



Dei'aktment of Tjteratitre, Science and Arts 7 

FIFTY YEARS AFTER— AND THEREAFTER. 

By Edward Everett Darrow. 

In the Spectator, Joseph Addison 

Presented, some two centuries ago 

In guise of oriental apologue, 

An allegory of the life of man. 

Vision of Mirza was the name it bore. 

To whom while wandering on the Bagdad hills 

(Harun Al-Rashid's realm of wizardry) 

Upon a holy day and musing deep 

Upon the vanity of earthly things 

The Genius loci, unseen, heard before. 

Appeared, as shepherd, playing on a pipe. 

As wondrously bewitching melody 

As the Pied Piper's of old Hamelin town, 

Of melancholy moving Mirza's tears. 

Seeing, the spirit took him to a rock 

And, from its summit, bade him gaze about. 

The old familiar landscape faded out. 

Left in its place a wide-extended vale. 

Beginning and the ending lost in mist, 

And standing in the flood a mighty bridge. 

Both ends of this, too, shrouded with dark cloud. 

Along it moved a vast, unending crowd 

Treading the bridge, but many all the time 

Fell through and vanished in the wave below, 

On hidden trapdoors stepping or being pushed. 

Some, chasing bubbles and in act to grasp. 

Their footing failed, while others too. with arms. 



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Rushed to and fro to strike their fellows down ; 
Some gazing" at the skies in thoughtful mood ; 
Some in the midst of mirth and some in grief; 
All falling sheer, clutching at straws for life. 
So, on the bridge, tlie ceaseless stream poured by, 
The selfsame way, no traveler coming back. 

Seventy whole arches were there and at end 

There were some broken ones, scarce could these make 

The hundred out, and, hobbling here along, 

Some few who one by one slipped and fell in, 

Quite tired and spent with the long march of life. 

Vision of life from birth to death is here ! 

Fate-driven and doom-devoted seem they all. 

Which lends a solemn grandeur to their march, 

Silent as moving figures on the screen. 

Scant gleam of joy falls on this caravan. 

No sprinkling here of difTering age or sex 

Nor family nor happy human life. 

They come in sight, they pass, they disappear; 

^lajestic as Niagara's rapids are. 

Before they slip across the cataract's edge 

(Inexorable as gravitation's law) 

Into the gulf that yawns for them below 

And yet the mist begins to clind) again ! 

Classmates of Seventy ; now it's up to us ! 

Those seventy arches, all who're here have passed 

Safe, though not all may say exactly sound, 

Tried them all out, each of us qualified 

To say if vision, thus far, has held good, 

(I speak not yet of our Majority 



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Who vanished, one by one, upon the road 

And left us to negotiate alone 

The shattered piers that in the 70's lie) 

Now clambering- on with footing insecure. 

\^^ith strength diminished, hearing, sight impaired, 

Battling for life, or only clinging now? 

Or waiting death? some with impatience too? 

Still stumbling on without a chance to reach 

A shore ; each instant liable to slip. 

Flounder a moment, then be swallowed down, 

The last survivor, like Ulysses, spared 

To be the last to make the Cyclops' meal. 

Here you might ask "Why call this thing a bridge? 
Like famed Venetian Bridge of Sighs that spanned 
Canal 'twixt Doges' hall and dungeon door? 
More like the plank that pirates' victims walk 
\\'ith shocking lack of all provision made 
For adequate terminal facilities. 
Fm none too keen myself to take the plunge. 
Though calling back the boy's experience 
Standing stark naked on the river bank 
Shearing the call, "Come in ! The water's fine." 
Yet dreading first chill of the water's touch 
Delicious though he knew 'twould be when in. 
Deep as he plunged he knew he'd rise again. 
Had we some such presentiment as that. 
Even if not strong enough for guarantee. 
Cleansed and revivified to issue forth. 
Think you we'd choose to linger on the bridge? 

Well, there is more to tell, to Mirza shown; 
For, seeing this, he spoke with troubled mind ; 



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"How vain, how wretched is the lot of man 

Tortured in life and swallowed up in death" 

To whom the tutelary spirit said, 

"Fix now thine eyes upon that wall of mist 

"Whereto the tide is bearing all that fall." 

Then the cloud fled and far away he saw 

Innumerable Islands of the Blest 

With flowers and fruits and sparkling waters round, 

And thereon shapes in glorious raiment clad 

With garlands on their heads, passed 'mongst the trees, 

Or were reclining by some fountain's side, 

With ravishing harmony of singing birds, 

Of falling waters, of the human voice 

And instruments melodiously attuned. 

He longed to fly unto those happy shores 

With wings of eagle, but the Genius said : 

"Passage there's none but by the gates of death 

That open every moment from the bridge. 

Millions of islands lie beyond thy sight 

Even beyond imagination's grasp — 

The mansions of the righteous, after death — 

Assigned according to degree and kind 

Of the perfections of their habitants 

And every isle a paradise for each."" 

In such conception of a life to come 

(As in his picture of the life that is) 

We notice Addison ran true to form. 

In contrast sharp but in conjunction close 

He strove to weave into the life ahead 

All noblest joys the clarified sense might crave 

Ours for eternity as recompense 

For troublous, short, and trial life on earth. 



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The life's the coming- one — mere prologue this — 
No occupation — joy of doing — there. 
No need for work — at least all drudgery gone — 
The Doer did all that to last for aye. 

Such life may not appeal to all of us, 

'Twould not have done so in our boyhood days, 

The boy wants something doing all the time, 

(A more constructi\'e, less receptive joy) 

I doubt 'twould ever l^a^•e ]ilea^'ed Roosevelt. 

r.ut have we any better plan in mind? 

\\'ith more dramatic action, more detail 

Bryant has followed in his "Flood of Years" 

This very a])ologue of Addison, 

His Flood ])icks up, sweeps on and overwhelms 

The life it bears but brings it all at end 

l^nto those selfsame islands of the blest. 

?o, if the major jioets whom we know 

(Though sometimes speaking somewhat guardedly) 

Care not to trace the destiny of man 

And circumscribe it to this life alone, 

How^ dare a Mollv make-believe, like me. 

Presume to doubt we too are permanent, 

Tn the enduring s}-stem of the world, 

We too to live through Time's Eternity, 

That part of it that lies before us yet. 

And, in some sort, have lived through all behind. 

You see what lies beyond the Gates of Death 
AFust needs be touched, were there no other ground 
Than that our Class majority are there. 
For, if not by them some solution's found 
And that solution apt to stand for us. 



12 Class of 70, Univeu.sity of Michigan 

And any day may come the testing out, 

Which makes it most intensely personal. 

Giving full credence to the life to come 

What is our evidence 'tis pictured true? 

Still something lacks, we wish to see it cast 

In the necessary forms of human thought, 

Time, Space and Manner, the When. Where and How. 

What's the real nature of the change we make 

Is the insistent question on our lips. 

As to the form we'll take when comes the time 
Our present incarnation drops away 
There are too many entries in the field 
For me to back my winner 'gainst them all 
Millenniums old are some, some of to-day, 
Others, millenniums hence, may yet appear. 
And that man would be bold indeed who'd pit 
His present knowledge against all to come, 
WHiether bodied or unembodied we go on. 
Immediately to wake from death or not. 
In this world or some other, make our home. 
Permanent or transient as the case may be. 
With personality the same or changed, 
Whether I'll know that I am I, or not. 
Or what the difiference, if any. be. 
Oblivion's always possible of course. 
Call it Nirvana, dreamless sleep or plain 
Extinction, with frank-spoken Henry James 
(Referring to his brother William's death.) 
Which cuts the ground from under Joy and Hope 
But too. from under Pain and Fear as w^ell ; 
I've kept the dualistic theory 
Of soul and body, separate entities. 



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It seemed the easier to treat it so, 

But I won't presume to rule the monist out 

For just that point T will refer to Lod^e, 

\\'ho says that he's inclined to think the soul 

W"\\\ have a body; ether very like. 

Ethereal body clothe ethereal soul ! 

'Twould seem that this might bring the two in one 

Anything" more tenuous mind's not yet conceived ; 

Even the spirit takes its name from air 

And that is ponderable, the ether not. 

Lodge holds to intercourse between the worlds. 

Xo message has come back, to me at least, 

From Classmate or from other friend gone on. 

Nor have I found a way to get them word 

From us. but others may have. I know not. 

The problem of the future's posed at least. 

We'll seek solution somewhat further on. 

Scan first the course before that transfer point. 

But "Michigan" 's the goal that first we'll seek. 

So here's Ann Arbor! and here's "Michigan" ! 

Shall it be old or new that first we greet? 

The Michigan Union? We have share therein; 

And it throws wide its hospitable doors 

To make a home and center for us all. 

For days, together breakfast, lunch and dine, 

Chat or are silent, as the spirit moves ; 

To feel each other's presence is enough, 

Or find a pleasure in the knot of friends. 

In reminiscence, dwelling on the past ; 

Recalling, walking back from Ferry Field, 

Contests in northeast campus corner waged 



14 CLA.S.S of 70, 1\\1VE1{.S1TY OF .MICHIGAN 

By giants of our own in those "young" days 

\Mien Blacklnirn. CckjIcv. Dawson played the game. 

We wander too along the foliaged streets 
Seeking old landmarks, houses where we dwelt, 
The world that bloomed for us in blossom time 
\\ hite as Ann Arbor's green Catalpa blows, 
That seemed to wait for us this fiftieth year 
A fortnight ])ast its time to grace our day. 

As Heine, rising from his "mattress-grave" 

In pain and shadow of aj^proaching death 

Dragging himself round Paris, as he writes, 

For last glance at his idols, at the feet 

Of the Melian Aphrodite of the Louvre 

Sank down and wept, and she, compassionate 

lUit deeply grieving seemed to him to say 

"Fain would 1 help thee but I have no arms." 

Somewhat the same come we this day of days. 

Uncertain lest it well may be the last. 

Seeking our idols of our golden time. 

One seeking this perchance, another that, 

Whose contact might set free the s])ark to light 

The brain and heart with all the young-time thrill- 

A\'hv, there is Xydia! the Thessalian girl, 

()ur Xvdia, standing in the statued hall, 

( ?>orn 'neath Olymjms, 'neath Wsuvius 

To die, the m()rr(Tw. thinigh she will not fiinch 

v^'he does not see us; it were shame for us 

To ask compassion in her hour of nvcd, 

Dav of T\-»m])eii's death and burial, 

Day the caged prisoner of the underworld 

(Blind force of Xature struggling to get free) 



Department uf Litekature_, Science and Arts 15 

Long- raging- 'gainst his ])arriers broke his chain, 

Shook down the cities built above his head 

Stretched up and found the century-locked door 

High in the mountain side, l^urst out on world 

Of light and color, odor, breath of life. 

Of sun-steeped groves and vineyards, twinkling sea 

A swift up-growing, towering upas tree 

Of pitchy blackness blotting out the sun. 

With rifts of lightning-Hashes, strangling fumes 

With showers of ashes traveling fast and far 

While heated rocks came hurtling through the air. 

She's thought for nothing but the work in hand. 
Her master and her mistress safe to lead 
From the beleaguered city to the sea. 
Each she had saved for other, once, this day, 
(though one to her was life the other death) 
With eyes unseeing but each other sense 
Quivering with power, hearing and touch attent, 
And yet no sign is in that tranquil face ; 
Trance-like, as though some deity bears her load, 
She, but the unconscious agent of his will. 
Her feet, unsandalled, know the way they tread, 
Her staff relieves them for more delicate touch, 
Her hand, recurved, assists her ear to catch 
The faintest sound that might spell life or death, 
Before the blast her raiment close enwraps 
Her form, or flies ahead in sinuous folds 
Perhaps she felt, treading that fearsome way. 
Phoebus Apollo walking at her side 
Shaking his father's aegis o'er her head. 
She'll reach the harbor with her charges both 
And vessel will take all of them on board. 



10 Class of "TO, L'mvkksitv of MiciiKiAX 

Finished her task; naught for her will be left; 
Barred from Elysium by her tortured heart, 
Twice-barred as self-doomed offering to die 
Could be no worse, and it might give her rest; 
She'll seek nepenthe in Vesuvian bay. 

The visii>n fades; 1 leave Memorial Hall, 

We sit at ])an(]uet, not u])roarious 

Ikit (]niet. the still waters running deep, 

Strong too, with memories, emotion, love. 

Though "all the guests sit close and nothing" lacks" 

'Tis a memorial that we observe, 

A score, the fourth of the f^ld Class, are here. 

Some fewer arc the absent li\ing ones. 

It's the first time that our majority 

Is of the "Great Majority" beyond. 

We represent, not constitute "The Class." 

The Class was the great circle, but within 

Was many a smaller one of closest friends ; 

W ithout the greater ne'er had been the less, 

And in such circles, undisturbed by death. 

Are those whose presence brightens tlirough the years. 

Their personality acts on and on ; 

Had we not known them, clasped them heart and hand, 

How much less fruitful would our lives have been! 

Another circle too the years have bnnight, 

The one that had its birth since college days 

In those who each cpiinciuennial strove to meet 

"To keep the altar-fires alive till death." 

W'e first must recognize wdth gratitude 

The University, into the sphere 

Of wdiose attraction all of us were drawn 

Else we had never formed the Class at all. 



DEPAKTMENT of LiTERATl'RK, SCIENCE AND ARTS IT 

Now all of us have passed the Iron Gate 

That stands at end of three score years and ten 

(So was that milestone styled by Doctor Holmes 

At that Atlantic dinner given him 

To mark the closing' of his seventieth year) 

"So when the Iron portal shuts behind us" 

"The glimmering" starlight shows the gates of pearl." 

Should we look back or forward for a theme? 

Seek inspiration from the years behind. 

Or in the years that lie ])efore us yet? 

Can either hold the substance of a song 

Made, one from Memory's pictures, one from Hope's? 

The former's gone and in the record placed. 

Is not the story in the Classbooks writ? 

Original documents by ourselves compiled, 

Clio, not Polyhymnia, handled that : 

Anticipation holds the future still 

But will she build as fifty years ago? 

On what materials will she lay her hands? 

Thou well-beloved Oliver Wendell Holmes! 

Thou vanished singer of a vanished class, 

Thou tuneful bard of Harvard '20, 

Had I the power and gained the free consent 

Emeritus poet laureate shouldst thou be 

Especially for Michigan '70. 

Immortal singer of the college soul ! 

I count thee 'mongst that choir invisible 

Who found their voices, wore their crowMis while here 

Not to thy class alone but every class 

And classmate was thy voice attuned to wake 

Undying echoes in responsive soul 



18 ("LASS OF 'TO, Univeksity of .Michigan 

Who of all college poets I could name 

So early came, oft spoke and stayed so long 

Strung such a rosary of pearls of song. 

Dear Doctor Holmes, I'll not invoke the Muse, 
In your last poem here on earth you wrote 
"Vex not the Muse with idle prayers — " 
"She will not hear thy call;" 
"She steals upon thee unawares," 
"Or seeks thee not at all." 
"For thee her wooing hour has passed." 
"The singing birds have flown." 

If so with thee, what could another do. 

Not known on Helicon nor Parnassus-born 

If wise he'd do what I shall try to do, 

Take thee for guide, follow thy footsteps close. 

Lean rather heavily upon thee too ; 

There is no gleaning on the fields you reaped 

But I shall give thee credit just the same. 

It was the ultimate consumer's gain. 

And thou shalt bring thy Harvard '29 

(Named once the 58 of '29) 

Experience not swords to measure with 

That class of '70 of Michigan 

That followed, after one and forty years. 

Thou art silent ; but 'tis silence gives consent. 

So. Classmates, with such escort we proceed 
He was Class poet, Class-day. '29 
flames Freeman Clarke was the contestant then. 
The Keeper of the Class-book through his life. 



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Amongst his dearest friends while hfe remained : 

''After the Curfew "was his elegy 

In part: the other part was that of Class) : 

Then came a score of years till '51, 

Frequent class-meetings but no poem read : 

Then and thenceforward, covering '89 

The annual meeting with its annual song 

Or poem, by our poet writ and read. 

"Thirty-sixth Variant of the Old Tunc" he called 

The song of '86 : so that of '89— 

"After the Curfew," was thirty-ninth and last. 

Take from your shelf the volume — read again 

The "Poems of the Class of '29" 

(Such is the caption given to the sheaf 

'Twixt '51 and "77 clasped) 

Bringing Class record near to the 50th year: 

How did he treat that subject-matter then? 

Not much with memories of the olden days 

Of books, games, hours of study or of toil 

Instead 'twas their elixir that he chose. 

The precious residue distilled from-all 

The associations of those morning years, 

]\Iuch gold refined from out that ore of life: 

What themes were they, persistent through his song? 

First Youth, its effervescence, strength and joy, 

"The Boys" runs through that song of '51 

Again and still again we find that strain 

Incorporating all the Spring of life 

Trying to hold and carry it to end : 

And there is Friendship, ripening into Love, 

And its continued emphasis runs through 



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As though it were fruition of the life. 

But scanty note of what the deeds they did 

In the long years in manhood's prime till age, 

What fame they garnered or what wealth or power, 

(True, he was poet, not historian.) 

Then through it all, the minor chord still runs, 

The evanescence of the powers of man. 

He struck it early and he struck it hard 

But made himself the target of the notes. 

Before his evening, wrote the "Even-song," 

Age comes or's coming but not yet old age. 

One and another go but still "All here" 

Invisible, they still sit at the feast: 

And then there's Time ; personified from start. 

Our oldest friend, who greeted each at birth. 

To travel with us all the days of life 

And hand us to Eternity at end. 

Read farther on: Three groups of poems now 

Will carry you from '7T, on 

To '89: official end of class. 

"The Iron Gate": the poems centering round 

Our Poet's TOth anniversary. 

Of Class, the 50th ; poems five of these. 

"Before the Curfew" forms the second group, 

Takes them from '83 to '88 

Seven in number, then, for '89 

"After the Curfew" — the last word— is writ. 

We'll walk along with them their last decade, 
(It is the one that lies before us now) 
What may we learn of these ten years for us? 
Struggling through the "twenties" for our sixtieth year 



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Shall we arrive and greet it as a class? 

How long- was it their last survivor stayed? 

We'll quote more freely as we jog along. 

First quote from "Ad Amicos," '76, 

(It is "The Boys" still and they are "The Friends") 

" 'The boys' we were, 'the boys' we'll be" 

"As long as three, or two, are creeping;" 

"Then here's to him — ah! which is he? — " 

"That lives till all the rest are sleeping;" 

"The Last Survivor" — theme of '78 

"Yes ! the vacant chairs tell sadly we are going, going fast," 

"And the thought comes strangely o'er me wdio will live to be 
the last?" 

"When the twentieth century's sunbeams climb the far-off 
eastern hill?" 

"With his ninety winters burdened will he greet the morning 
still?" 

Answ-er upon all these queries waited one and twenty years. 

Then Samuel May as last survivor stood revealed — and dis- 
appears. 

Saw the sun of noth summer, but not 90th winter shine, 

In November nine and ninety joined his class of '29. 

Now we're at '79 — their 50th year 

Where we were standing in the summer past 

Two poems here "Vestigia Ouinque Retrorsum" 

(Eliding rightly you'll improve the rhythm) 

At Alumni Commencement Dinner read. 

"Are these 'The Boys' our dear old Mother knew?" 

"Sixty brave swimmers. Twenty — something more — " 

"Have passed the stream and reached this frosty shore !" 

Second poem "The Archbishop and Gil Bias." 

How all the frailties of old aoe come forth 



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Before the merciless inquisitor! 
How the Archbishop parries and mistakes, 
Explains, exculpates and extenuates. 
Gets deeper in with every step he takes ! 

"Before the Curfew' comes in '82, 

The warning that the actual call is near, 

"Not bed-time yet"! How quick the children cry! 

Leave us a little longer by the fire! 

Play games, tell stories, riddles ask and guess, 

We're afraid to go alone and bed is cold. 

How with us older children at the call? 

As yet unsleeping and still loth to go. 

Questioning how all continued stories end. 

Sitting with friends before the genial fire 

Guessing the riddle of the universe 

I shall not quote: I'd not know where to stop. 

Another year: The "Loving-cup" goes round, 

"Come, heap the fagots ! Ere we go" 

"Again the cheerful hearth shall glow ;" 

"We'll have another blaze, my boys!" 

"Till life and love are spent, my boys." 

"Till life and love are spent. 

Persistent now through two years more that stram. 

Through "Friendship's Girdle and "Anacreon's Lyre" 

Still more insistent grows that theme of love : 

"Not Eros, with his, joyous laugh," 

"The urchin blind and bare," 

"But Love, with spectacles and stafi^," 

"And scanty, silvered hair." 

In '87 "The Broken Circle" comes 

Stonehenge: with columns broken, leaning, prone. 



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(He'd visited it in the summer past) 
"So let our broken circle stand" 
"A wreck, a remnant, yet the same," 
"While one last, loving, faithful hand" 
"Shall live to feed its altar-flame!" 

Next-last '<S8 -'The Angel-thief" 

Who brought our blessings and who takes them back. 

Time's last appearance, no disservice now, 

An angel now to rend our prison-walls ; 

"When gathering rust has clenched our shackles fast," 

"Time is the angel-thief that Nature sends us" 

"To break the cramping fetters of our past" 

"Pries off a bolt and lo ! our souls are free." 

Comes '89, closing their sixtieth year 

"After the Curfew" : Covered now the fire ! 

How could I better do than quote his words 

In part, and leave the comment to your thoughts? 

"The Play is over. While the light" 

"Yet lingers in the darkening hall." 

"I come to say a last Good night" 

"Before the final Exeunt all." 

"We come with feeble steps and slow" 
"A little band of four or five." 
"Left from the wrecks of long ago," 
"Still pleased to find ourselves alive." 

"One breathing form no more, alas !" 
"Amidst our slender group we see"; 
"W^ith him we still remained "The Class," 
"Without his presence what are we?" 



24 Class of 70, r.NivKKsiTY of MiniiOAN 

"So ends "The Boys," — a lifelong play." 
"We too must hear the Prompter call" 
"To fairer scenes and brighter day:" 
"Farewell! I let the curtain fall." 

There comes just one more decade ere the time 
The "Last Survivor wears that "wreath of stars" 
There's meeting held at "Parker's" following year 
But three were present — melancholy quite — 
(This the good Doctor in a letter tells) 
Then at his home for three or four years more, 
Once four were present — fifth would have made all 
The usual number that was there was three 
(The data of these later years, gives May) 
The Doctor stayed through the quinquennium 
And May to "carry on" the full decade 

And what about our "Keeper of the Book?" 
The "General Secretary" of the Class, 
Not merely "kept" it. brought it into form, 
Made it abiding record of Class life. 
Then gave to each the opportunity 
To put in book the story of his life 
(Would some had been more full, more personal) 
But that was not the Secretary's fault. 
He was the "Central" too for all of us. 
Installed the plant, connected up with all, 
Even with all charter members (as myself) 
Who failed to take their final papers out, 
Wrought out a closer, stronger bond wherewiili 
To ficht time, distance and forgetfulness. 



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So, full appreciation, heartfelt thanks 

And kindest wishes till his journey's close, 

"^lay he live long and prosper," — long enough — 

Up to that psychologic moment when 

The gain in going outweighs gain to stay 

When the Special's ready and the Signal drops. 

The friend would not detain the voyager. 

And forward looking now for 'Seventy's bounds, 

Again I take a leaf from 'Twenty-nine ; 

While Clarke stayed with them they were still "The Class." 

After he went, the curfew bell was struck. 

The Five who've left us since that day in June. 
They only, know\ if they, whether their call 
Untimely was or not, we mean, for them, 
(Not but they soon w^ill know if not as yet) 
How short the time! How many heard the call! 
Two of them sat at banquet with their Class. 
Two dared not undergo the risk to come 
We still stay here and plan about both worlds ! 
What still awaits us here before we're called ! 
It is ourselves we're to interrogate. 
First, what about that plant of ours we name 
The body, is it functioning as at best? 
Is it our servant yet or master now? 
How is it with our senses' group of five. 
That makes connection with the universe 
Outside the body ; sight and hearing chief ; 
Are they still rendering service as of old? 
Hope used to run with us in college days, 
Is she still tripping just ahead — or gone? 
And then her stronger, steadier sister. Faith ; 



26 Class of 'TU, rxivKUsriv of .MiciiinAX 

Faith in ourselves, our aims and in our powers, 

Is she beginning- to distrust us now? 

And young Ambition too! Fertile in plans, 

Ready to take the scent and run them down ; 

Have you seen anything" of him of late? 

And where is Energy who financed them all? 

Does he still honor drafts we'd like to draw? 

Where too is Memory? Holding fast the gains 

That thought, use. repetition won for us? 

She has a trick of vanishing nowadays 

And takes along some things she won't bring back. 

Are they all leaving us or gone ahead 

AX'here we shall meet them in the life so near? 

Are we not caught in the tremendous drag" 

Of an ebb tide that will not flow again? 

That's drawing every source of power away 

A tide that's ebbing otT into the sea, 

P)Ut well I know that tide the sun will lift 

In water vapor every source above, 

To fall again and run next cycle through. 

Each one of us must (ptite appreciate 

That ageless holiday of happiness 

Humanity perfected and at goal 

With no more sorrow, no more pain, nor death ; 

Rut most beliefs have put it far ahead. 

I make no guess at any 'ultimate" 

^\^^ere we shall go to when the sun goes out. 

That problem's not a pressing one just yet. 

It's just "where do we go from now and here," 

Is the immediate (piestion for us all. 



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Further, "whence did we come to here and now?" 
For History is the lamp for Prophecy 
The life behind us throws its light ahead. 
How link the individual with the race. 

How if w^e've been here from the very first, 
That we came from our last life into this. 
Precisely as we'll pass from this to next 
To keep returning- while the race survives? 
Just as we had no meiuory of a life 
Before, we'll carry none into the next. 
Unlikely 'tis we shall know each other there, 
But we shall get acquainted, as this time. 
(I reason so since no renieml)rance here 
Have we of those w-e knew in previous life. 
Nor of ourselves as far as that's concerned) 
Deep is our sadness as on that we dwell. 
But trust there's way that reconciles it all. 
Our Poet's "Homesick in Heaven" offers key. 
To all of us who've loved the life they've lived, 
How great the privilege to come back again 
With old and worn-out body changed for new ! 
'Tis well that memory goes not back of death 
To tell the child he'd seen it all before, 
'Twould "pluck the heart out of the mystery," 
The path that winds through far-off centuries 
Robbed of divinity and pleased surprise. 
Shall we be born as born before, to grow^ 
Insensibly to consciousness of self. 
So travel on from infancy to age? 

And what for us until that new life come? 
Adjust our aims to what's within our grasp 



28 Ci.Ass OF '7U, rxni'-RsiTV of AIu'Iikjan 

And recognize the failing- afternoon 

That grows toward evening" when tlu- time to rest 

And yet not (|uite tlie time to sleep is liere ; 

The time men tell their reminiseences, 

No longer speak of things they've yet to do. 

Unyoked the oxen wander to the barn ; 

Ourselves to house returning, 'neath the trees 

Awhile to sit and watch the fading light, 

Till sleep lays hand at length on brow and eyes. 

With infancv's wonder-opened eyes, we wake. 

FINIS. 



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OUR CLASS LETTER. 

It will l)e remembered that at the time of our last banquet 
before we separated, after receiving our diplomas, the Class 
passed a resolution to start and maintain a letter to be known 
as the "Class Letter"; Adams, the first man, alphabetically, 
was to write a letter to the Class and send it to Baker, the 
next man down the alphabet, and Baker was to write an- 
other letter to the Class, put the two together and send both 
on to the third man down the line who was to continue the 
process, and all to do likewise on receipt of the accumulating 
bundle until it had made the circuit of the alphabet, and all 
had had an opportunity to read all of the letters. In theory 
this looked all right, but in practice it met with some diffi- 
culties. It was not easy to keep track of the young graduate, 
just liberated from a four years' bondage. Even if one knew 
that he was on the way to Hong Kong, there was no way of 
telling just how long he would be in getting there, so as to 
address the letter properly and send it in time; and if the 
letter should arrive the next day or the next week after the 
addressee had gone, where would the letter go? The first 
one started was lost, but a second met with better luck ; 
though it took several years for it to make the circuit. I be- 
lieve it went to Europe once or twice chasing up globe trot- 
ters. It was delayed two years at one time as related by 
Fearon in his biographical sketch in this book, but it has been 
preserved. Its several components written by persons now 
deceased, have l:)een published in connection with biographical 
sketches of the respective authors, for these reasons : The 
letters were written to the whole Class and some of the mem- 
bers have not had an opportunity to see all of them ; and. al- 
though thev mav not contain much that is new at th's late dav. 



'Ai) Class of '7(t, r.\i\Ki{siTV of Miciikjax 

\ct the tenor, style and ])eculiar expressions used in them 1)}' 
their authors will revive memories of the departed and of 
college days which we would not willingly miss. In reading 
these letters we are carried hack to the old time ; we seem to 
have with us again the same mirthful boys, with their accus- 
tomed jollitv and fun, their unfailing friendshi]) and brotherly 
affection — we are bovs again. 



Di:i'aut:sik.\t of LiTKRATruE. Science and Arts 31 



ARTHUR C. ADAMS, A. M.. M. D. 

Born at Washington, D. C, April 14, 1847 — Died at Washing- 
ton, D. C, December 31, 1904. 

Mr. Adams continued in his medical practice in Washing- 
ton from 1903 until his death. 

In his last letter to the secretary he said: 

"Am royally glad to hear from old '70. We see and hear 
comparatively nothing from members of the Class, but enter- 
tain the very best wishes for their welfare. A call from one 
and all would be highly esteemed." 

Second Class Letter. 

Washington, Feb. 26, 1875. 

Dr. Adams presents his compliments to the members of 
"Seventy," tendering most cordially his services to gratify the 
"eye and stomach" of any classmate who should be so for- 
tunate as to visit the Capital City, or so unfortunate as to 
direct his steps hitherward during the "honeymoon," as 
Washington seems to be a very delectable place for many 
such. After leaving Ann Arbor I passed the summer and 
autumn in Chicago and Evanston. Returning to Washing- 
ton the following winter, when the study of medicine attracted 
my attention. Passed two years as assistant in the Freed- 
man's Hospital. Received the M. D. in March, '73, and have 
since been administering the healing art in the vicinity of 1102 
Eighth street N. W. Also occupy the position of visiting 
physician to the Children's Hospital, and now we are ready 
to prescribe or operate. Entertain no thought of marrying. 
I have been in love innumerable times and engaged about ten 



32 f'LASS OF 'KK r.XIVKKSITV OF ^riCIIKJAX 

times. I liave been concerned in several l^irths, but medical 
ethics prohibits further detail. 

Hoping" health, happiness and prosperity may accompany 
every meml)er of '70, I remain, 

as formerly, 

ARTHUR C. ADAMS. 

His son, Louis W. Adams, was graduated from the Mas- 
sachusetts Institute of Technolog'y in 1903, and at present is 
manager of the steel works department of the Ashland Iron 
& Mining Company at Ashland, Ky. He is married and has 
two boys. His sister, Mrs. Eric Plum]), is living- at 401 Stuy- 
vesant Avenue, Bro()kl\n. X. Y., has <)ne daughter. 



GEORGE WASHINGTON ALLYN, A. M., M. D. 

Born in Plymouth, Mich., November 28, 1845— Died at 1030 
Morewood Ave., Pittsburg, Pa., February 26, 1921. 

Dr. Allyn attended our Class re-uniou last June. 

He wrote the following only a short time before his death: 

"But little has hapi)ened to record since lOO.'!, when our 
full history was pul)lished. 

"In 1!)0() my wife and I made our third trip to Europe. 
\\"e took the southern route. We landed at Xaples and took 
the steamer at once for Palermo. It was my desire to visit 
the scenes of the Grecian settlement on the island and the 
punic wars of Rome. From Taormina we could look down 
upon the seashore of Naxos, the original landing" place of the 
Greeks. The visit to Girgenti (the Agrigentum of the Riv 
mans) recalled vividly the Roman times and the splendid Gre- 
cian ten-iples took us back to B. C. 500. On returning to the 
n"iainland, we visited Perugia, that old Etruscan town. Here 
we visited the Etruscan tombs, with the inscriptions which 



Department of LiterattrI':. Science and Arts 33 

have never been read. We visited several places not visited 
in former visits. In 1917 and 1918 I made some seventy large- 
size enlargement of my negatives, which I had made in oils 
and mounted. These I exhibited in the Art Room of the Car- 
negie Institute. The exhibition was fully described in papers 
of the city and several exhaustive descriptions were made of 
the members. In the spring' of 1917 I retired from my work, 
and my residence, wanted as an outlet to the Carnegie Insti- 
tute of Technology, was sold. One winter was passed in 
A\"ashington. D. C, one in Florida and this winter was passed 
in Pittsburg. \\> are in good health at the present writing. 

"GEORGE \V. ALLYN." 

Dr. Allyn for many years occupied his vacation seasons 
largely in making enlarged bromide prints from negatives 
taken by him during summer outings. These were made on 
a variety of art papers and tinted in oil colors, being a process 
standing between straiglit phc~)tography and painting in oil 
colors. The doctor having been the secretary of the Pitts- 
burg Academy of Science and Art for years and then its presi- 
dent, dedicated the l^romide prints to the Academy. Dr. Allyn 
was an enthusiastic photographer. He found great pleasure 
in completing these works of art. 

A Pittsburg paper s]>eaks of Dr. Allyn's exhibition as fol- 
lows : 

"The salon of enlarged l)romide photographs, hand-colored 
in oil, Gallery K, Carnegie Institute, the work of Dr. George 
W. Allyn, is a photographic event. It is an event for artistic 
picture makers by the photographic art because Dr. Allyn has 
challenged the criticism of the friends of both 'straight pho- 
tography' and painting. =;= * * The finicky photographer 
will probablv say, 'They're not photographs.' The artist will 
])robablv sav. 'They're not paintings.' Those who admire 



34 Class of 70, Univkrsity of Michigan 

beautiful pictures, regardless of the medium, will say they're 
well-made works of art. One, 'lUack Head," a view on the 
coast at Monegan. Me., is a picture that either the critical 
photographer or painter would be proud to claim as his own. 
The darkly frowning headland, erect and powerful as a gigan- 
tic sentinel, has been the joy of some of the foremost painters 
of the country, whose ])ictures have been shown in our inter- 
national salon. It is the sort of bold fascination that brings 
the spectator back to it for another look. 

"In contrast to 'lUack Head,' with its imperial grandeur, 
is 'Sunshine,' a village street scene in the same vicinity. 'Sun- 
shine' charms with its simplicity. 'Black Head' conuuands 
with its suggestion of potential power. The lines of 'Sun- 
shine' lull with a re]it»seful atmosphere — 'Black tfead' makes 
one think of a Ki-inch gun on guard. What may be called 
'A Hetzel" is a bit i)f landscape at Middle Scalp Level, which 
has been the favorite sketching ground for Pittsburg artists 
for half a century. lUit there is more of the Hetzel in this 
lively landscape than the Seal]) Level scenery. The Hetzel 
composition is there and the dash of Hetzel sunshine lights 
it in just the right place and the right way. "Lower Scalp 
Level' is a fitting comjjanion. 'Morning Reflections' is a view 
on Chartiers Creek, a mile below ISridgeville, is Dr. Allyn's 
hint that it isn't necessary to go far irom home to find the 
material for beautiful pictures. This is a charming little 
brook scene, happy in the arrangement of the trees and por- 
trayal of the lights and shadows in the water of the fore- 
ground. It is likewise an illustration of how hard it is for the 
photographer to get what he wants and preserve the sim- 
plicity his eye sees. 

" 'Evening' and 'Night,' two pictures of woods and stream, 
taken at Romnev, W. Va., will be remembered by every one 



DePAUT.MEXT of LlTKUATrUK. SCIKXCK AND AUTS 35 

who sees this exhibit. 'I'he prints are of the same depth, but 
differ ahnost as the poles through the coloring. 'Evening' is 
light and full of life, with brilliant foliage and sparkling" light, 
while 'Xight' is simply a duplicate of the same picture put 
into a dove color key, dark blue. The very weight of a dark- 
ening atmosphere is felt as well as seen in this picture. The 
beholder can fairly feel the darkness settling down all around 
and clinging to him. "Autumn," another local picture taken 
at Chartiers, reminds that Bayard Taylor, the world-traveler, 
once said the scenery of W^estern F'ennsylvania surpassed in 
beauty anything in the world. After inspecting Dr. Allyn's 
home pictures of home landscape, one is ready to agree. 
'Husking Time' and "The Frost Is oii the l'umi)kin' are 
autumn farm scenes that hold the admiration without the 
dash and sparkle of the coast pictures or the reflected beauty 
of the woods and streams. 'The Velvet Pathway' at Monhe- 
gan, Me., is carpeted with beautiful lichens and leads through 
cathedral woods to an extended view of the acean. The com- 
position is admirable. 'Fern Cden,' also at Abinhegan, Me., 
is a much-admired piece of woods interne. 'Fern Glade,' in 
the same locality, a little ravine, cool and shady, down wdiich 
the waters of the passing' shower trickle between its rocks 
and mosses. AVhite Head," Monhegan, Me., shows how 'The 
breaking waves dashed high on a stern and rock-bound coast.' 
'A Roller' is the reward of the extremely difficult job of get- 
ting a satisfying picture of the dash and smash of a 'roller' 
ag:ainst the rocks crowding down to the very water's edge. 
There is the wave, the rocks, the spray — the ])icture. The 
waves have met a resistance greater than their own after an 
unimpeded sweep of 2,000 miles. 'The A\'asherwoman' is 
another breaker scene at Monhegan, wdiere the water mounts 
to 200 feet in the air at times. 'Across the North Harbor,' 



3G Class of 70, rxivKusrrv ok Michigan 

same locality, is a |)leasing" composition with many features 
of unusual artistic values. 'Transept of Lincoln Cathedral,' 
'Choir of Lincoln Cathedral" and 'Xicola Lisano's Pulpit at 
Pisa. Italy,' arc unusual bits of architectural photography. 
The Pisano pulpit is the first sculpture after the Dark Ages. 
Other church sculpture is pictured at other Italian cathedrals. 
St. Mark's. Venice, is shown in an across-the-bay view." 

A Pittsburgh ])aper of February 2'7, 1!)3L contained the 
following notice of his death : 

"Dr. George \\'. Allyn. physician and Civil War veteran, 
died yesterday at his home. 1030 Morewood avenue. Dr. 
Allyn was born Xovember 38. 1845, in Plymouth, Mich. He 
graduated from the University of Alichigan in the scientific 
and medical departments, \\dien the Civil W^ar began he 
enlisted in the Navy and was assigned to the lower Mississippi 
scpiadron, where he remained until the war closed. Dr. Allyn 
came to F'ittsburgh in 18T8, taught natural science in the 
High Schools for six years, practicing medicine at the same 
time. In 1884 he began his specialty of eye and ear work and 
continued this practice until 1917. 

"He was at one time president and secretary of the Acad- 
emy of Science and Art, Carnegie Institute of Technology, a 
member of the Allegheny Medical Society, the State Medical 
Society, the Otological Society, the Ophthalmological Society 
and Post No. 259, G. A. R. He leaves his widow and a 
brother. Dr. H. S. Allyn, of Brazil." 

"The Bulletin," the organ of the Academy of Science at 
Pittsburgh, said : 

"Death of Dr. Allyn. — We regret to record the death of 
Dr. George \\\ Allvn. He was one of the most faithful and 
useful mend)ers that the Academy has ever had serving a- 
Secretarv and President, being largely instrumental in the 



Department of LiTEUATrRE, Kciexce axi> Akts 37 

formation of several sections, among them the Photographic 
section. In a very real sense the Annual Photographic Salon 
is and will be a memorial to Dr. Allyn." 

MARCUS BAKER, A. M., LL. D. 

Born at Kalamazoo, Mich., September 28, 1849 — Died at 
Washington, D. C, December 12, 1903. 

The first Class letter was started by Adams, but went 
astray and never showed up. The Class spirit, always pos- 
sessed by P)aker, induced him to start another, as follows: 

University of Michigan, 
Ann Arbor, Dec. 10, 1871. 
Dear Classmates : 

The Class letter seems to have had but sorry success thus 
far, but yet it is hardly worth while to cry "c|uarter" and give 
up beaten. Adams started the letter as per agreement shortly 
after Commencement, and I forwarded it to Baldwin and have 
never heard from it. As Adams has not started another, I 
take the libertv of doing so, for I feel very anxious to have 
the matter carry. And, being the first to write, pardon me 
for urging that each one, upon the receipt of this, immediately 
forward to the successor, with the request that he acknowl- 
edge the receipt of it. so that if at any time it shall miscarry, 
it may be known and reported to Carter or the "Chronicle." 

P)y a little care on the part of each one, we can get this 
epistle through Uncle Sam's mail bags and receive much 
enjoyment. For '70's sake, make it a success. 
\^erv cordially yours in 'TO, 

M. BAKER. 

The last thirty years of Mr. Baker's active life was spent 
in the emplov of the Government. TTis labors in the U. S. 



38 Class of 7(t, Umvkusity of Miciiu;ax 

Coast Survey took him to x\laska in ls;;5, which were followed 
by work in the geological field. Air. liaker was cartographer 
of the Venezuelan Commission and accompanied the Com- 
mission to Paris. When the Carnegie Institution was 
founded at Washington, Air. I'.aker prepared the articles of 
incorporation, and was made its assistant secretary and served 
in that capacity until his untimely death. From the time of 
his permanent settlement in Washington in 187 5, Mr. Baker 
became deeply interested in its various scientific activities. 
He was secretary and afterwards president of the \\'ashington 
Philosophical Society and at one time was member of the 
governing- boards of four of the smaller scientific organiza- 
tions. 

JOHN ALBERT BALDWIN, A. B. 
Born at Detroit, Mich., June 27, 1847. 

Address: Los Gatos, California. 

The last letter mailed to Air. Daldwin within two or three 
months was returned with the memorandum, "Xot found." 
Lentil then it was supposed he was still living at Los Gatos, 
Cal.. where he had been residing since ISSL 
His Class letter was as follows: 

LTnion Theological Seminary, 

New York, Dec. 15. 'Tl. 

Dear Brothers in 'iO : 

You see from the heading of this epistle that I am in the 
great Metropolis. I left my native burgh ( Detroit ) in the fall 
of 'TO and have been here most of the time. The entire course 
here is three years, of which 1 have completed one-half. I 
hope this Class letter will have a rapid circulation, and upon 
him who holds this letter may the everlasting furies of Tar- 



Department of LnEUATTRE. ^^ciexce and Arts 39 

traus blow dust in Iiis eyes. Alay the second start be a suc- 
cessful one, and each man write immediately. 
Ever yours in '70, 

JOHN A. BALDWIN. 

CHARLES BALLENGER, A. B. 

Born at Williamsburg, Wayne Co., Ind., September 28, 1846 
— Died at Indianapolis, Ind., March 13, 1881. 

Following was his Class letter: 

Cambridge City, Ind., Dec. 25, ISri. 

Dear Classmates : 

The Class letter reached me Saturday evening, contain- 
ing two letters, one from Baker and one from Baldwin. I 
learned a great deal about Baker from his letter. 

I spent the summer of 18T0 on my father's farm near Wil- 
liamsburg. Was married August 25, 1870, to Miss Jennie 
Lamb, taught school at Emory, Ind., in the fall and winter of 
1870, began the study of law the 1st of February. 18 ?1, at my 
father's. Moved to this place, Cambridge City, September 
19th, 1871, and now am reading and practicing with my 
brother. I have a very fine little boy about four months old, 
whom I suppose to be the "Class boy." If circumstances per- 
mit, I hope to exhibit him at the Class reunion in '7;?. His 
name is Walter Sylvester Ballenger. I like the law and am 
rushing it with about all the energy I have. Life with me 
passing along pleasantly and happy. Now, dear Classmates, 
permit me to say that the man of '70 who isn't married in five 
years after graduation at A. A. isn't half a man. I hope this 



40 Class of 'TO, rxivEusiTY of .Michigan 

letter will be kept p^oinj^;- rapidly until the reunion in '73, when 
we can arrange to start a new one. 

Ever yours, 

CHAS. BALLENGER. 

This is Christmas. May it be merry to you all. 

C B. 

A letter was written to Walter Sylvester Ballenger at 
Indianapolis. Ind.. recently, asking as to his activities, but no 
reply has been received up to the time of going to press. It 
is understood that he is doing well in business there. 



HENRY HOYT BARLOW, A. B. 
Born at Hastings, Mich., June 10, 1850. 

Address: Coldwater, Mich. 

Mr. Barlow continues in his successful practice of the law 
at Coldwater, Mich. He and his wife were present at our 
Semi-centennial Re-union last June. 



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GEORGE WILLIAM BATES, A. M. 
Born at Detroit, Mich., November 4, 1848. 

Address: Dime Bank Rnildino'. Detroit. Mich. 

Mr. Bates has devoted his hfe to the arduous and success- 
ful practice of law at Detroit, where he has hosts of friends. 
He never misses a Class Re-union. 



PROFESSOR WOOSTER WOODRUFF BEMAN, A. M., 

LL. D. 

Born at Southington, Hartford Co., Conn., May 28, 1850. 

Address: Ann Arbor, ^lich. 

Professor Beman still continues at the head of the Depart- 
ment of Mathematics of the University. Is a member of the 
American Mathematical Society, London Mathematical So- 
ciety, Deutsche Mathematiker Vereinigung-, Circolo ^Matemat- 
ico di Palermo, Italy, fellow A. A. A. S., member of Phi Beta 
Kappa, Treasurer of Michigan Baptist Convention for many 
years, was member of executive committee Northern Baptist 
Convention. 1910-16, of Federal Council Churches of Christ in 
America. 1016-1920. 

Joint author (with David Eugene Smith): 

Plane and Solid Geometry. 1895; Higher Arithmetic. 1897; 
Famous Problems of Elementary Geometry (from the Ger- 
man of Klein). 1897; New Plane & Solid Geometry. 1899; 



42 Class of 'H\, r.xivEKsiTv of AIicukjax 

Elements of Algebra, IflOO; A Brief History of Mathematics 
(from the German of Fink), 1900; Sundara Row's Geometric 
Exercises in Paper Folding (revision), 1901; Academic Alge- 
bra, 1902. 

Sole author: 

Continuity & Irrational Numbers; 

Nature & Aleanini^- of Numbers (from the German of Dede- 
kind), 1901. 

The regents of tiie L^iiversity of Michigan at their recent 
meeting ado]:)te(l resolutions on the completion of 50 years of 
continuous teaching in the university, which has been ac- 
complished by Prof. W. \\\ P>eman. The resolutions follow: 

"Whereas, \A'. \\'. Peman, a graduate of the college of lit- 
erature, science and the arts of the University of Michigan 
with the class of ISTO, has been a member of the teaching 
staff of that college for 50 continuous years and since 1887 
head of the department of mathematics. 

"AVhereas, he has been a teacher of scholarly interests, 
whose work has been successful to a rare degree, and 

"Whereas, he has ever ])een untiring in his devotion to the 
best interests of his alma mater, therefore, be It 

"Resolved, that the regents of the university congratulate 
Prof. Beman upon the happy completion of this one-half cen- 
tury of university service and express to him their full a]v 
preciation of the work which he has done." 

The Class of 'TO is under very many obligations to Pro- 
fessor Beman and wife for their kindness and generosity in 
repeatedly entertaining us at their charming home on E. 
Kingsley street, Ann Arbor, on the occasions of our re-unions. 
These receptions have been especially delightful to our ladies 
who have accom])anied us on these pleasant journeys. 



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JUDSON SLATFORD BIRD, C. E. 

Born at Ann Arbor, Mich., October 9, 1846 — Died at Wash- 
ington Co., Kan., March 19, 1882. 

Class Letter. 

Jackson. ^lich.. March 30, 1872. 

Dear Classmates : 

The above letterhead shows about what I am engaged in 
now (engineering and map-making). My life has been a busy 
one since I left Ann Arbor. For the first nine months after 
g'raduating I published city maps under the firm name of 
Taylor & Bird ; was then appointed City Engineer for the City 
of Jackson, Mich., which position I still have. I have worked 
up a g'ood business outside of my official duties and have com- 
bined with our classmate. Mickle, in a state agency for an 
iron bridge company and we are doing first rate. Bird, Mickle 
and Waters are publishing city maps at the rate of one city 
per month. Altogether our corps numbers nine men. You 
can count on my being at that little fight in Ann Arbor in 
'73 over the cups. I feel proud that our class is multiplying 
so rapidly and feel sorry I have no part in the matter. 

Yours in '70, 

J. S. BIRD. 

Mrs. Mary E. Bird, widow, is now with their daughter, 
Mrs. K. G. \A'estfall. 301(5 South Logan Street. Denver. Colo- 
rado. 

Miss Cora Bird, sister of our classmate, whom many of 
the class remember out in the old peach farm near A. A., died 



44 Class of 70, r>;ivi:usiTY of Miciiigax 

April 9, 19'30. Mrs. Jane Bird, mother of our "Jed" Bird, died 
November 29, 1!)0T. at the ripe old age of <S3 years. She was 
born in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, October 6, 1824. 
Miss Jennie L. Bird, her daughter, is still living on the old 
Teach Hill farm. 



JULIUS ABIRAM BLACKBURN, A. M. 

Born in Town of Gaines, Genesee Co., Mich., February 23, 
1847— Died at Manchester, Mich., April 25, 1876. 

Buffalo. N. Y.. April 4, 18T2. 

Dear Classmates of "lO: 

Class letter received last night, and contents read 
with much ])leasure. \\ ith a tlesire to hasten this encyclical 
letter, I take time, which does not ]:)robably belong to me. in 
order to write. Since graduation, 1 have rejoiced in the title 
of "Brisk. Wielder of the B)irch." In September, 1S70, I was 
called to the charge of the High School of Clannahan. Illinois, 
where I was initiated in the work of teaching and was taught 
to feel the awful im]iortance and responsibility of the peda- 
gogue. At the close of the school \ear, I resigned my ]K)si- 
tion and accepted a better one as principal of \(^. :5 Grammar 
School of Buffalo, where I am now engaged, but expect soon 
to go A\'est to take a still better position which has been ten- 
dered me. T find mv ]:)o-ition fraught with hard work, though 
interspersed with enough of the amusing and ridiculous to 
take off the curse. T chanced one da}' to go into my Primary 
Department to inform the little ones that the next day was 



DePAIJTMEXT of T.rj'ERATT'RK. SCIKXCE AND ArTS 45 

Thanksgiving' and consequently a holiday. I undertook to 
give them some idea of the nature of the holiday and stated 
to them that, by a proclamation of the President of the United 
States it was made general throughout the country. It then 
occurred to mc that it might be well to test them a little as 
to their knowledge of the Chief Executive of the nation. Ac- 
cordingly I asked them who was President of the United 
States. \\'ell, several guesses were made, but no one seemed 
to know. Finally a little girl over in the back part of the 
room held up her hand, and in a piping voice called out: "I 
know, Air. FMackburn." Well," said I, "who is it?" "Jesus 
Christ," she shouted (exit Blackburn, holding" his sides). 

This is one of the many ridiculous occurrences in the ex- 
periences of a teacher. 

Xo marriages as yet in my experience and consequently 
no births. I hope this circular letter may meet with no mis- 
haps, but on the contrary that it may make the circuit quickly, 
and I shall look for its return to me with much interest and 
pleasure. In conclusion. I join with imprecations upon the 
man, who, by neglect or carelessness diverts or delays it in 
its ecliptic (Figaro). 

In the bonds of '70, 

J. A. BLACKBURN. 



4() CLAkSS ok "TO, rXlVKKSITV OF MiCIIKJAX 

JAMES HARRISON BLANCHARD, A. B., LL. B. 

Born at Niles, Mich., Becember 6, 1846 — Died at Los Ange- 
les, Cal., January 24, 1918. 

"Mr. nianchard was nominated as candidate for governor 
of the State of California on the I*rohil)ition ticket in 1906. 
Our classmate, John S. Maltman, wrote under date of Janu- 
ary 25. 1018: 

"For some few years last past, Blanchard had ceased from 
hard work. I called at his office a few weeks ago for a little 
chat. He looketl pale and thin — some internal disorder had 
weakened him. He was a fine character; all his leanings were 
towards the lofty, pure and noble things. He labored to that 
end in temperance and church lines, even to preaching on the 
ptiblic streets oi the city. His wife, lately deceased, was 
noted for her lal^ors in the affairs of women and children. 
This leaves me the sole survivor of the class of '70 in these 
parts. Jones, \A'ells and Blanchard. having gone hence, await- 
ing above, let us hope, another happy re-union of dear old 
'TO." 

His Class Letter. 

Ann Arbor. April 10. 1872. 
Dear Classmates of '70: 

The Classic City still holds me. The sacred walls of alma 
mater have until \ery recently ])rotected me from the chilling 
blasts of the outside world. Ivife begins to look real and 
earnest ; am simply taking breath for the future. 

For the past year and a half have been engaged in the study 
of law and beg leave to state to the unfortunates of '7 that 



Department of Literature, Scien'CE and Arts 47 

"Marriage and Divorce" has been my specialty and am now 
ready to free any of those who have formerl any unpleasant 
relations by a divorce a mensa et thoro or divoirce a vinculo. 

Large retainers are, however, necessary before anything is 
done. 

Am glad to hear of the unprecedented success of all my 
classmates. 

Yours without a tear till '73. 

JA^IES H. BLAXCHARD. 



CLARENCE MORTON BOSS, M. E. 

Born in Town of Pittsfield, Washtenaw Co., Mich., January 

2, 1850. 

Address: 4029 E. Superior St., Duluth, Minn. 

In the previous volume of the Class History, Boss was left 
in the Sudbury mining district of Canada. During the winter 
of ]902-;i the Algoma Commercial Co., suspended operations 
at all their mining properties, including the Elsie mine at 
which Boss was employed as superintendent, and he returned 
to his home at Sault Ste. -Marie. Mich. After a short rest he 
took up the work of consulting mining engineer and was en- 
gaged in examining and reporting on mining prospects in 
Canada, east and north of Lake Superior. 

Li December, 1!)0.'), a trip was made to northern iMontana 
to examine some mineral claims near Libby in the Kootenai 
river district. Returning from Montana he was sent to east- 
ern Quebec, Canada, to report on some more deposits. 

In the fall of 1904. accompanying a Canadian survey party, 
he enjoyed a very interesting canoe trip through the northern 



48 Class of 'T((, r.xivKKsiTv of Michigan 

wilds, going" up the ( )tla\va river and over the height of land, 
then down Al)iti])i lake and river to the vicinity of Hudson 
Bay. This trip ()ceui)ie(l two months. 

The winter folK)vving he superintended some shaft sinking' 
on iron prospects north of Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. 

In June, 1905, he passed a civil service examination and was 
ap])ointe(l a government inspector of dredge work, and spent 
the summer checking up the work of dredges employed in the 
widening and (lee])ening of the rix'cr channel in the \dcinity 
of Sault Ste. Marie. 

In October. 1 !»().-), he was engaged b}- the Canadian Copper 
Co., to superintend the dexelopment of a new nickel {property 
in the Sudbur_\- district. This work was a success, and a 
permanent desirable situation seemed assured, l)ut it would 
involve mo\-ing hi^ famil}- there for a home. The thmight of 
bringing u]) his children in a foreign land became so rejmg- 
nant that in March, 1 !•()(;, he resigned his i:)Osition and came 
to Duluth, Alinn., and entered the employ of the Oliver Iron 
Alining Co., the mining subsidiary of the U. S. Steel corpora- 
tion. 

He was given charge of diamond drill ])rosi~)CCting on the 
then newdv discovered Cuyuna iron range, and remained there 
until A])ril, IDOT. He was then sent to the little village of 
Pyrites, in northern St. Lawrence Co., \. Y., to investigate 
and experiment with a deposit of iron ]iyrites in that A-icinity. 
He completed this work in April, 1!)()S, and returned to the 
Duluth office for the suiumer. 

On Sept. 1, Boss was ap]K)inted to the newly created office 
of mine inspector for the properties of the company in the 
Michigan mining districts, to look after safety, sanitation and 
ceneral mining conditions, reporting to the Duluth ofifice 
monlhlv. The duties of this office were followed until Sep- 



Department of Literature, Scien'CB and Arts 49 

tember, 1909, when he was transferred to the Minnesota dis- 
trict to take up the same hne of work, which he has continued 
to date. 

The Ohver Iron Mining Co. has approximately tiiirty mines 
and pits in the Minnesota district in operation at ah times, 
and inspection visits are made to each of these at least once 
in each month. The work is somewhat in routine at present 
but with all very interesting'. 

For a number of years the widely varying localities to 
which his occu]:)ation seemed to call him deprived Boss of 
much of the pleasures of home life. His family remained at 
the home at Sault Ste. Marie. Mich., until he went to Pyrites, 
N. Y., in the spring- of 1907, when the\' moved to Detroit, 
Mich., for a year, where his son, Alward. completed his course 
in manual training in the Thomas X^ormal Training school. 

On his return to Duluth in 1908. Boss brought his family 
there and established a ])ermanent home, llis son. Alward. 
after graduating in Detroit, was instructor in manual training 
at Blees Military Institute in Missouri, and at Niagara Falls, 
N. Y.. finally going to Prescott, Ariz., to take charge of that 
work in the public schools there. At the close of his first 
year in Prescott. he married Fhn-ence Troy Jones, daughter 
of a prominent citizen, and settled down to steady work with 
the schools there. Four children have come to him, and his 
home life is a very ha]ipy one. After eight years of service 
in Prescott, he moved to Bisbee, Ariz., to take up the same 
line of work. 

Boss' daughter. Mary Agnes, graduated frcun the Duluth 
High School in 1914, and completed a course in Domestic 
Science at Stout Institute. Menomonie, ^^'is.. in 19U;. She 
has since remained in Duluth. 

In the spring of 1917. Boss and his wife enjoyed a trip to 
southern California, \'isiting various points of interest, atid 



50 Class uj' 7((, rMVKUSiTV of .\Ii('II1(;a.\ 

on tlicir return Iri]) s])en(lini^ several days witli their son and 
family at Prescott, .Ariz. They also visited the wonderful 
Grand Canyon of the Colorado. 

The g;reat grief of a lifetime came to Ross in Fel)ruar}-, l!)!!"), 
when his beloved \\'ife ])assed away after an illness of two 
months, lea\'ing' a \'oid that cannot be filled in this life. Since 
that time strenuous attention to work serves ti^ divert his 
mind, and time will sooth the wound. He uiaintained his 
comfortable home in Dulutli, with his dau.ghter, Alary Ag'ues. 
as housekeeper. 

Although not quite so sprightly as in the past. Ross still 
retains sufficient physical vigor to expect to remain in the 
harness for several years yet. He enjoys fishing" and shooting" 
in season, and takes great interest in baseball and all athletic 
sports. He has attended all the reimions of 'tO since the 
vigitenial, and is iilanning on renewing the old associations 
again in 1025. 

Duluth, Alinn., Se])tend^er, 10"?0. 

REV. FRANKLIN BRADLEY, A. M. 

Born at Chatham, 10 miles south of Springfield, 111., June 4, 
1845— Died at Clarkston, Mich., May 22, 1916. 

Mr. Rradley's latter years were passed under the cloud of a 
great bodily alTliction. To those of his classmates and other 
friends who were informed as to its nature, the h^veliness of 
his Saintlv character shone forth clear and bright under the 
conditions of his severe trials like a star of the first n"iagnitnde. 
In spite of his growing" infirmities and loss of strength, AFr. 
Rradley continued faithful to his charge, showing great de- 
votion to his life work and astonishing fortitude in his sup- 
pression with a smile and without a nnirmur, the sharp pangs 



Department of Literature, S<'iex('e and Arts 51 

of physical pain wliich from time to time reminded him of his 
misfortune. lie commanded the deepest sympatliy of the en- 
tire class. 

On June lo, li)!-"), he wrote what proved to he his last letter 
to the Class. It is here i)rinted in full. 

"As the days draw near for the gathering- of the Class forty- 
five years after graduation, the longing to be with you grows 
on me. but it cannot be so. I send my greetings and assure 
you that in spirit I shall be with you. I want to thank the 
members of the Class for their interest in me and for the 
cheering" encouraging letters several have written me. I have 
not felt able to answer all, but have certainly appreciated them. 
After 42 years in the active ministry T was retired last Sep- 
tember. \\'e have a pleasant little home in this village of 
Clarkston, situated among the lakes and the hills of Oakland 
County, Mich. I have had relief but am not cured. I have 
enjoved my life work and would be glad to continue longer 
in it. I am trying to keep sweet and submissive and am find- 
ing: tlie comfort and sustaining- grace of God sufficient. The 
years are passing with us all. but life has 1)een worth the liv- 
ing- and I am sure w^e have all tried to make good. In mind 
T shall shake hands with you all and wish you all God speed 
in the journey still before you. There has been much of lov- 
ing fellowship cementing us together during our student 
years and the years that have followed, and T am sure it will 
continue to mature and be more manifest when we g(-) on into 
the fuller life of the future. I would be with vou to see your 
faces and hear your voices and ^grasp your hands and have 
a share in the sones and the cheer. ^ly heart will be there 
though it seems a long way to Ann Arbor. 

Cordially Your Classmate. 

FRANKLIN BRADLEY." 



52 Class of "TO, rNiVEKsiTV of Michigan 

THOMAS HARPER BUSH, A. B. 

Born at Tremont, near Pekin, Tazewell Co., 111., April 3, 1847 — 
Died at Chicago, 111., March 29, 1887. 

Class Letter. 

Geneseo, Illinois, 

May 27, 1872. 
Dear brothers and sisters : 

M}^ autobiography is as follows : 

July 13, '70, sailed from New York, visited Great Britain. 
Winter of '70-'? 1, at Leipzig with Scott, Moses and Prof. 
D'Ooge. Spring of '71 went south via lierlin and A^ienna to 
Italy, there two months, one of them at Rome. In June went 
north via Munich to Heidelberg. In August walked over 
Switzerland. In September returned home by way of Paris. 
Law lectures at A. A. under the maternal roof until holi- 
days of '71-72. Since tben in the ofifice of an uncle at this 
place, reading ni}' ')() pages per day of Kent, Mark Twain, etc., 
etc. Expect to be at A. A. again next winter and to see the 
excitement at Commencement '73. Shall not marry until after 
that event. 

To my dear nephew, Walter Sylvester P)allinger, I hereby 
send mv jovful congratulations. Yon were born under a 
luckv star, my l)oy ! Who wotdd ha\e suspected that you 
were the indix-idual about whom the "iO wise men disputed 
so long and earnestly! "Such is life!" Ah! Winch! A\'e little 
thought that night last winter when we came up to see the 
"Class Boy" and have some oysters that you were attempting 
to buy our votes, but I'm not sure but what Carter is right 
and there should be two cups. 



Department of LiTERATrRE, Science and Arts 53 

The boy of August 12th is legally entitled to the cup and 
his name begins with a B. That's an advantage. But the 
remembrance of those oysters is sufficient to me at least to 
confuse the dates a little. Mr. President, I move a cup to "the 
boy of August 13th." 

BUSH. 



PATRICK HENRY BUMPUS, A. B., M. D. 

Born at Ypsilanti, Mich., January 21, 1841. — Died at Dever- 
eaux, Mich., February 18, 1898. 

Class Letter. 

Jackson, Mich.. May 13, 18T2. 
Dear Classmates : 

The long looked for Class letter has at length arrived. I 
have led an eventful life since graduation, the recital of which 
would draw tears from the fretful crocodile. The first great 
event happened on the IGth day of August. 1870. when, in the 
presence of Tweedy and Ripley and sundry other persons. I 
took upon myself the awful responsibility of supporting a 
wife and family. I tell you I have passed through some har- 
rowing scenes since then and prudence forbids a recital. In 
October of the same year T had (|uite a fit of sickness and 
came near "pegging out." but made out to "rally around the 
flag boys" and came out all right. Since that time I have 
sawed wood and worked at occupations. Last win- 
ter I attended nvvlical lectures at alma mater and had a good 
time with the boys. Bird, Mickle, Waters and Fleming are 
here in Jackson. T am now engaged in peddling sewing ma- 
chines and doing my part to humbug the public generally. T 
am not vet able to state that married life is the sweetest thing 



54 Class of '7((, r.\ivi:i:si'i"V of .Michkiax 

on wlu'cls. Al Icasl such is not my experience. Well, goofl 
bve l)()}s and be at A. A. in IS'^;!. 

Yours iM'alernally, 

PAT IT. lUIMPHS. 

CHARLES FRANCIS BURTON, A. M., LL. B. 

Born in Romulus, Seneca Co., N. Y., November 8, 1849. — Died 
at Detroit, Mich., October 5th, 1911. 

Mr. I'.urton suffered a stroke of ai)o])lexy Oct. :>. IIMI, while 
on a street car in the C'it\ of l)etroit, where he then resided. 
He lin.gered in an unconscious condition at his home for two 
daws before he finally ])assed away. 

Our Classmate C.eors^e W. r>ates kindly sent a wreath for 
the casket marked "Class of '^<>, I'niversity of .M ichiL;an.'" 

He had been continuously i)ract icing" law at Detroit for 
about -'57 years, h'or nearly 'M) years of that time he had given 
his attention to ])alent law and was widcdy recognized as an 
expert in that branch of the law ])rofession. lie was con- 
nected with the firm of i'arker & I'ln'ton in the Moffat block. 
He left a wide circle of ac(|uaintances both within and outside 
of his ])rofession. 1 U' was a mend)er of the Wayne Count)' 
Bar. 

His widow Martha and daughters hUhel h". I'.urton and 
Anna Grace Grow all still sur\i\e him. Mrs. lUirton and her 
daughter luhel at i)resent are in ivos .Angeles, l)Ut consider 
Detroit as their home. 

Class Letter. 

Detroit, May 24, 1872. 
Dear Brothers of 'TO: 

I am glad to hear from those wdio have gone before me 
matrimonialK as well as alphabetically. May the pleasures 



Dki'au'i MKX'r OF I.n Ki{A'n im;. Scikxck am; Arts ."),■) 

of family life ncxcr j^row less for those who lia\c entered into 
that hlissfnl state. 

My own hopes of following their exam];)]e arc not at present 
very great. The ])ros])ects are that when next I meet you all 
it will I)e in the charaeter of a hachelor forlorn. 

Although like the rest of yon 1 ha\e been li\-ing history, 
still it has heen very une\'entful. ( )n the Ith of July after 
graduation I conuneuced work on tlu' lunar tables for Prof. 
J. C. Watson. Remained in A. .\. until the next May, taking 
the winter course of lectures in law. During the sununer of 
'■^1, I was in the Lake survey ofhce in Detroit. In the autunui 
I went back to .\nn Arbor and during the ])ast winter I hn- 
ished the law conrse. Ila\e been admitted and am readx' to 
assist P)lanchard in obtaining those di\'orces. Dwing to the 
migratory character of the old Class, 1 ha\-e had the fortune to 
see man}' of the boys during the \yd<{ two }-ear^, ruid the^■ are 
doing well. 

T am situated where 1 can gaze down u])on the Xoble Ibnv- 
land as he sits in his office below me. ( )ratorical liates is 
just across the way in one direction and nuiscular Cam])au in 
another and during the season I ex])ect to hold numerous 
seances with the musical luildwin. 

Well, boys, T wish 1 had a luore exentful history of my own 
to give you and when we meet next year, I ho]ie to be able 
to relate stories of hair-breadths esca])es and all of that. 

P)Ut until that time T give you the health and iiros])erity of 
the members of the glorious old Class. May its nnnd)ers in- 
crease and multiply. 

CHARLES F. PL^RTOy. 



56 Class of '70, Univeijsity of Michigan 

GEORGE THROOP CAMPAU, A. B., LL. B. 

Born at Detroit, Mich., July 29th, 1847. Died at Detroit, 
Mich., February 5th, 1879. 

Class Letter. 

Detroit, Mich., 

May 23, 1872. 
George T. Campau : 

"Hail fellows well met," and a most hearty greeting to all 
dear Classmates, who will, 1 trust, pardon, this once, my char- 
acteristic egotism in l)eginning this note with my name, hut it 
saves turning this portly volume an unseemly summersault to 
find the illustrious author of each autobiography. 

( )n the 12th of Jul}- after we parted, I sailed across "ye 
briny deep," and wdiile in mid-ocean, July 18, war was de- 
clared, we were warned oi the event by an English pilot boat 
and just escaped capture by a French cruiser by running into 
Plymouth (I was in a Genuan packet). Was in Berlin during 
the first half of the war and a few weeks after Sedan ; there 
was much to see of course, but it broke up my plans entirely, 
and rather than waste the time waiting its uncertain termina- 
tion, I returned by way of England to Detroit. Spent six 
weeks on my father's fisheries, after which it required 185 
pounds averdupois to balance the scales. On Xovember 29, 
I started for Albany where I spent the last six months of the 
course in law under Sen. Ira Harris, Judge Parker and others. 
It was a good school. Returned to Detroit in June, 1871, en- 
tered Holbrook's ofifice, studied a little and was admitted May 
10, 1872. Am working on my first case "a nigger in the 
fence." 

Faithfully Classmates, I ever remain to *70, 

G. T. CAMPAU. 



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Mrs. Campau and her three l)oys, Woolsey, Montgomery 
and George are living in Detroit. A\'oolsey and Montgomery 
are married. George is with his mother. Two or three of 
them have attended the University. They are all pleasantly 
situated. 



OSCAR JAMES CAMPBELL, A. M., Ph. B., LL. B. 

Born at Cuba, N. Y.. April 27, 1846.— Died at Cleveland, O., 

June 17, 1917. 

Class Letter. 

Cleveland, O., May 29, 1872. 

All hail ! 

"Health to old Seventy, we pledge." My first cup to 'TO. 
Blessings on Walter Sylvester Rallenger and his father and 
his mother. Walter Sylvester Ballenger. in the language of 
Rip Van Winkle "here's to your good health and your wife's 
and your family's — may they live long and prosper." 

My second cup to Walter Sylvester Ballenger, born Aug- 
ust 12, 1871, Harley Corson \\'inchell, born August 13, 1871. 
ought not to be slighted. 

My third cup to Harley Corson Winchell who came within 
one of it." The letter came to me this morning like a "gale 
from Araby." It was read with "feelings." Space too short 
to gush. lUisiness : I came first to the confessional. I am 
virtuous, consequently pretending to l)e looking for a school. 
In that time I took a kind of a post graduate course. Learned 
things I had not learned in calculus or quintilian. * * * Spent 
six weeks of summer under the ])aternal roof, taught mathe- 
matics in high school Ann Arljor. school vear of '70-71. Came 



58 Class of 'TC, rMVEUSiTV of Michkjan 

to Cleveland, June 1!), 1S71, into TTntchins c^ TngersoH's law 
ofifice where I still am. 

Most heartily in the bonds of '70, 

O. J. CAMPBELL. 
The following is a characteristic letter from our old time 
genial Classmate : 

Cleveland, ().. April 2^), 1!)05. 
Of course I shall attend old '70 reunion. I shall bring with 
me "my sisters and my cousins and my aunts", so to speak. 
That is to say, my son Charles Fuller Campbell will graduate 
in June, so my wife and my daughter will be in Ann Arbor 
on that occasion and will eat with the class — the boy will 
probably have other engagements. Rufe Day wrote me he 
would be there to see his son Steve graduate. 

Oh, won't we have a jolly time. Carter put the kettle on 
and we'll all take tea. Se\'enty forever ! ! 

Yours truly, 

O. J. CAMPBELL. 

The following letter recently received from ( ). j. C, Jr.: 
\[y father's life from the year lOlK) was comparatively un- 
eventful. He continued the practice of law until about the 
year 191:-). He then retired and devoted luost of his leisure 
time to the study of genealogy, particularly that of his own 
familv and that of his wife. During the last two years of his 
life he was in poor health, although he was free from any 
active physical suffering, and he continued to be the delightful 
and stimulating companinon that he always was. To the very 
end perhaps his greatest interest and enthusiasm was the 
LIniversitv of Michigan and his class. As you know, he at- 
tended the -foth anniversary of the graduation of his class 
when he was seriously ill and should have been under the cart 
of a physician. 



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I append a few notes concerning his children. 

Oscar James Campbell. Jr. Gradnated 1!)03 from Harvard; 
taught English and Constitutional Law in United States 
Naval Academy for two years; married in 1907, Emily Lyon 
Fuller, IJridgeport, Connecticut; Ph. D. at Harvard, 1910; 
travelling- fellow of Harvard L^niversity, 1910-11; since then 
at University of Wisconsin as instructor, assistant professor, 
and associate professor of English. Has three children. Ad- 
dress 15 East Gilman Street, Madison, Wisconsin. 

Charles Fuller Cam|)bell. Graduated from L^niversity of 
Michigan. 1905 ; captain of Michigan baseball team ; married 
in 1907 to Miss Cornelia Van Renslaer Sweet, of Grand Rap- 
ids. Michigan ; has two children. Since his graduation from 
college he has been engaged in the manufacture of furniture. 
He is at the present time eastern representative of The Luce 
Furniture Co. of Grand Rapids, Mich. Present address D. K. 
E. Club. New York City. 

Jean Campbell. ^Married in 1918 to Emory Gilfillan Huk- 
ill. who is president of The Petroleum Products Co. Has two 
children. Lives at 2905 Coleridge Road. Cleveland, Ohio. 

Very truly yours, 

OSCAR JA^TES CAMPBELL. JR. 

As we are about to go to press the delightful news comes 
that Professor Oscar J. Campbell, Jr.. has accepted a full pro- 
fessorship in English at Michigan. \\'e can imagine what 
joy this news wotild have given his father could he have 
known it was to occur so soon after his death. 



GO Class of 70, University of Michigan 

CHARLES SIMEON CARTER, B. S., LL. B. 

Born in Town of Metomen, Fond du Lac Co., Wis., March 31, 

1846. 

Address: T)!)! Newton Ave., Milwaukee, Wis. 

The course of my life has continued about the same for 
the last 25 years, beins^" that of a busy lawyer in the various 
courts of this state. Returning- from New York to my native 
state in 1885, we located at Milwaukee, where we have lived 
ever since and where our two children, Lillian and Charles, 
received their early education. I resumed my law practice 
here. ( )ur special object in coming back to \\ isconsin was to 
be near my parents in their old age, having been away from 
them almost continually since the beginning of the Civil War. 
From Milwaukee we visited them fre(|uentlv and they came 
to us occasionall}' while they lived, thus rendering life more 
enjoyable to all of us than it was while we were in the East, 
far from home surroundings and old-time acquaintances. My 
law practice, from time to time, was sufficientl}' diverse and 
varied to be both interesting and instructive. I might men- 
tion one novel case which came to hand during the great war 
which may interest some of the law practitioners of the class: 
Our client, "C," was a banker in Xew York City. A customer 
of his. "A," had an account in his bank and was an expert 
salesman of a certain kind of machiner}- manufactured in 
Southern W^isconsin by 'R.'" Business relations had existed 
before between "A" and "B," and October 24th. 191(1, they 
entered into a written contract, w^hereb}- "B" hired "A" to go 
to Europe to sell "B's" machinery on commission. It seems 
that this machinery was such as would likely 'be in great 
deiuand in the war-stricken countriL\s after the close of the 
war, and "IV was anxious to get it introduced into various 



DErAUTMEXT OF l.ITEHATrRE, SCIENCE AND ARTS Gl 

portions of those countries, in advance, in order to have an 
advantage over rivals. I:>e that as it may, "li" hired "A" by 
this written contract to go to Europe and introduce this ma- 
chinery to the trade, canvass for customers and to sell the 
machinery. The contract al.^o provided that "B" was to 
advance to "A" on account of commissions to be thereafter 
earned under the contract the sum of $5()0 and to deposit the 
same "on or immediately prior to "A's" sailing' from New 
York for Europe to carry out his contract, in "C's" bank in 
New York to the credit of "A" on "commission account." 
"B" was also to deposit a second $500 in "C's" bank to the 
credit of the same account on the first of the next succeeding 
month. "B" agreed also to advance a large amount of money 
to pay up existing" creditors of "A" and to charge the same to 
the "commission accouiit" with "A." No definite date or time 
was agreed upon as to when "A" was to sail from New York, 
but "A" exercised due diligence in endeavoring lo obtain res- 
ervations at an early date. Trans-Atlantic travel at that time 
was very precarious and uncertain. No deposit had been 
made in "C's" bank by "IV" under the contract up to January 
4, 1917, when "A" had finally arranged to take passage, and 
desired to purchase his ticket. "A." therefore, to obtain nec- 
essarv funds for his trip, drew on "C's" bank against the antic- 
ipated commission-account funds for $1,000 and gave the bank 
an assignment of his contract with "B," as follows: 

"To the Bank, New York : T hereby 

assign to you as against value received the two payments of 
$500.00 each to be made to me through your bank by 'B' as 
per conditions stated in my contract with 'B' dated October 
24, 191(). and of which you have a certified copy. New York, 
4th January, 1917." 

(Duly signed by "A.") 



<>2 Class of 'UK r.xiVEusiTY of .MiriiiuAN 

Tlie l)ank ^ave due written notice to "?•" of this assign- 
ment to it l)y ""A" of the written contract between "A" 
and "B." 

"A" succeeded in ^ettint^- reservations h\- and took ])assage 
for Kurope on the steamshi]) Laconia on February 16. 1!)17. 
which was sunk l)y a German torpedo boat February 2(). IDK, 
and "A" was. in consequence, drowned "W had not made 
either of the deposits of $.-)00.0O eacli accorchng- to his agree- 
ment, and thereafter refused to do so, claiming- tliat no com- 
missions, in ])ayment for which they were to I^e made, had 
been earnech nor could they now l)e earned under the con- 
tract, as the contract was for personal services ; that there had 
been an entire faihire of consideration under the contract and 
that nothing;- was (hie. 

The l)ank came to us for advice in the matter. The resuU 
\vas that an action was commenced l)y the l)ank, throus.;h us 
as attorneys, aj^ainst "l*>." after <hie demand l)eini;- made (mi 
"1)" to make the deposits in the bank as he had agreed The' 
htigation \vas continued c|uite vigorousl\- in the circuit court 
for Wisconsin, extensive depositions ha\ing I)een taken in 
New York City j^reparatory to the triah I'efore the case was 
reached on the trial calendar we received a substantial offer 
of settlement by the payment to our client of a sufficient sum 
of money to satisf}- it for its loss in the matter and the suit 
was discontinued. 

After living for many years in rented ([uarters. mv wife, 
daughter and self determined early in 1!»1() that we would 
make a change by purchasing a lot or parcel of land in some 
desirable spot in the suburbs of Milwaukee and build a resi- 
ffence to our liking in order that we might have elbow room, 
plenty of light and fresh air, the benefit of rural scenerv, a 
])lace for flowers and a vegetable garden. Accordinglv we 



Dkpart.mkxt of Litkratt'uk. Scif.xce a XI) Arts (>3 

took a few rambles along- the lake shore to the north of the 
cit}' and found what we concdnded mii;ht be a desirable spot 
in the open country. There had formerly l:)een a ^^.'ood many 
large oak trees in the locality, but some had died out. leaving" 
a few scattered here and there, which jM'oduced shade and fur- 
nished nesting jdaces for the many birds in the vicinity. We 
ascertained that we could get a piece of oO feet fronting the 
north, having a depth of 140 feet, which, by a little filling in, 
would present a gentle slope to the south, suitable for a veg- 
etable garden, grapes and flowers. This place is on high 
ground, but a few minutes" Avalk from the lake and a half 
hour's ride from the central part of Milwaukee on our best 
street car line. It was e\'identl}' intended for us from the 
beginning;, for there were the golden-rod, the sunflower, the 
wild ro-^e, the wild aster and the dandelion in great profusion, 
and Mrs. Carter is a great lover of flowers: there were the 
robin, the meadow-lark, the blue bird, the wren, the thrush, 
song sparrows and a host of warblers in season, and our 
daughter. Lillian, is a great enthusiast on birds; and there was 
a great opportunity on that southern slope for raising ]:)eas, 
1)ean~, onions, carrots and tomatoes, and I had been a farmer 
in my youth, and was an expert gardener by ]:)roxA'. our 
daughter being the ]^rox\-. With all these things in mind, the 
deliberation was short and the lot was purchased. A change 
immediately came over the spirits of our dreams. There 
would be something" doing now besides monotonous law prac- 
tice, including interviews and conferences in close, tobacco- 
scented quarters, ^^'e saw^ visions of a real home springing 
up in the near future in that lovely, restful spot, surrounded 
by every convenience, wdth flowers and vegetables in quanti- 
ties as they might be desired. Happiness reigned. Good 
cheer brought rosy cheeks. Grocery bills increased as doc- 



04 Class of 'TO, Umveksitv of Micjiioan 

tor's 1)ill (liniiiiishcd. IJooks on s^ardcninij^ and architectnre 
soon covered our library table. Pencil sketcbes and outline 
j)lans of g"ardens and cottag'es covered the floor. Much enjoy- 
ment was derived from this ])astime, but it was followed l)y 
the employment of a real architect, who soon broui>ht order 
out of confusion when informed just what we wanted. He 
had the excavation for the 1)asement inider way by April, 1912, 
and the buildin,^- nearly completed and the beer sign u]) by 
July 4th. The ])lasterers and ])ainters were out of the way 
so that we moved in ( )ctol)er 1, \'.H2. W'e then began to real- 
ize, wdhch has grown u])on us e\er since, that life is worth 
living, under some circumstances at least. A\'e give a stand- 
ing inxitation to the members i>f "^0 to come and see us at our 
home.. 

Our son, Charles, took the bachelor's degree in electrical 
engineering in l!)(ll, followed by the master's degree at L'ni- 
versity of Wisconsin. lie took a post graduate course in 
chemistry there, and also recei\'e(l the degree of M. E. lie 
s])ent one season in Alaska with a party on a railroad survey. 
His life work has been in charge of gas and electric plants. 
At the present he is manager of the gas and electric plant at 
l)anbur\', Conn. Ts married and has a daughter G years old. 
He was at our class re-union in June, liMT). 

Our daughter, Lillian, was graduated from the v^tate Nor- 
mal School in .Milwaukee in 1S9I, and was at once employed 
in the I'nblic Library of .Milwaukee, where she has been ever 
since. Now has charge of the catalogueing of department, 
with five assistants. The library has 400,000 volumes and is 
increasing" at the rate of .'),(»()() \-olmnes jier month. She 
attended our class re-union in June, 1!>1(>. 

Mrs. Carter claims to be a member of 'TO, because she u'as 
born in .Ann Arbor and was lixing there during most of the 



I>epakt:ment of LiTKHATrui:, Rcikxck axu Aijts ('>.' 

time we were there and knew many of the class — some of 
them in the liigh scliool there, v'^he is always ready to accom- 
pany me to a re-tinion. 

T am a member of the Con^res^ational Church, the Military 
Order of the Loyal T^egion of the United States, a society 
ori,f?;inally formed by of^cers of the Civil War immediately 
after the death of Lincoln ; State Historical Society of Wis- 
consin, Did Settlers' Club of Milwaukee County (Vice-Presi- 
dent), SoO members; State and County I'ar Associations; 
32nd degree Mason. 

THOMAS CHALMERS CHRISTY, A. M.. M. D. 

Born at Kinsman, Trumbull County, O., October 1846 — Died 
at Pasadena, Cal., December 17, 1913. 

Class Letter. 

Kinsman. O.. June S. 1872. 
Christy, T. C. sends a hearty s^reetin"' to all his classmates 
and is imj^atiently vvaitiii,^' the coming' event of 1ST;?. The 
week of graduation found me l)ut ])oorly fitted for grajipling' 
with the future, physically speaking', so taking" the advice of 
our worthy President — may Heaven bless him — Prof. Frieze, 
I came here and commenced laboring' on my father's farm. 
Since then m}- life has run (juietly enough, and today T con- 
gratulate myself that I am much stronger in mind and body 
than I have been for years. Last fall, feeling the need of a 
slight change, 1 took up the study of medicine wdth our family 
physician and do not hesitate to say that this study is to me 
intensely interesting. T commenced Dec. 14th, '7L but was 
broken off nearly a month since by the suddeii and severe ill- 
ness of niy father. For tlie immediate future T have but few 
plans, but during lh(> present summer and aulumn shall fol- 



(j(J Class of 70, I'mnkksitv ok Michigan 

low llu' luinil)k' (.■allium; of in\' paternal and will he ha])])\' to 
rc'cci\t' any or all of "iU at whatever time it may he eonxenient 
for them to eome. I lave seen hut two of '10 since graduation, 
namely, Wells and Haven. And, strange to say, hoth of them 
were, at that \\u\v. hut recently married and were on their 
weddini; lours lo ihr l\ast. Aly hest wishes to all. 

As ever, 
THOMAS C'HAL.MI'.kS CHRISTY. 

The follovvinj; letter is from I. II. I'edrick, of the C'lass 
of 'G!) : 

I'asadena, California, Jan. ."ith. T.M 1. 
My dear Mr. Carter: 

I am ^lad to ha\e \our letter and to know that coi)ies of 
tlu' neat ut'crolo^y card \'ou kindly enclosed, will also, 
ihroiiL^h \our kindness, m) to the sur\i\'inL;" classmates ot l)r. 
Christy. 

Dr. Christ\- continued in the general practice of medicine 
at TitlshnrL;', I'a., and vvrv succi'ssfuUy, I am told, until his 
liealth hecame im])aired ahout I'.Htl. \\v sulTered sexeral 
l)(.'riods of proloUL^X'd illness. l)ut resumed ])ractice at intervals 
when somewhat im])ro\ed. The rigorous climate at Titts- 
hurs.';, not heini^' fax'orahle to his restoration, he, with his lam- 
ilv, spent the winter of 1!K);!-I at I'asadena, California, and, 
lindiuL;' himscdf somewhat ri'lie\-ed, and the climate \-ery 
accei)tal)le to himself and family, they finally ])urchased a 
ri'sidence and adopu^l I'asadena as their permanent home. 

I )urin^' his earlier \-ears there, he found nuich ])leasure 
and s])ent man\' hours in \-isitint;' some of Nature's (|uiet 
retreats, easil\- reached from his residence, where, as in hoy- 
hood, he lo\i'(l to ;iL'ain couunune with her nnhou^iit fifts to 
mankind. His lu-alth, ho\ve\er, did not hecomc sufficiently 
restored to resume his ])rofessi(ui, and of late years he seldom 



l)Ki'AUT.\ii:\T OK I.ri'KUATrui:, Scikxck and Auts <>7 

went beyond the limits of his lawn and i^arden, where, after 
he had spent an hour or two daily, he nsnally L;"ave the 
remainder of the day to l)ooks, current news and to friends, 
who were always .c;lad to have a quiet hour with one who had 
read so widely and conversed so interestini^iy. 'Phoui^h not 
physically able to return their visits, he welcomrd friends, 
old and new, with his characteristic openness and good will, 
lie had a warm feelint;- for the men of his tmiversity and 
watched the ]:)rOiT^rcss of the latter with nuieh interest. 

Althou.^h his step became slow, his form remained erect 
and secmiuL'iy stron,<^-. and so like his ajipearance on his i^rad- 
uatin,^' (lav, that exce])t for the crown of white, almost any 
schoolmate carryiuL'; his sturdy form in memory, could not 
mistake his identity, even at a considerable distance. 

J-Te was dee]dv interested in the social and natiou'il life, bu1- 
like some of his old-time friends, he did not feel that all of the 
new thini2;s of the ])resent day, are necessarily better than the 
idainness and sturdiness of former days, but he maintained 
implicit faith in the ultimate outcome of the rii-ht anumc: 
nations and people. 

His wife, Mr'^. Rebecca Kinsman Christy, survives him, 
and expects to continue to li\'e in their home, !'!) N. Hudson 
avenue. No child survives him, but l\Trs. Christy's sister will 
live with her. 

Yours cordially, 

ISAAC II. P'-.DRICK. 

Mr. Bennett of our class, who died at Pasadena, Cal., in 
1919, wrote as follows : 

Pasadena, California, April 10, '14. 
Dear Mr. Carter: 

In re]:)lv to vour letter, allow me to speak first of the death 
of our belov(>d friend and clas'^mate, Dr. Thomas C. Christy. 



^'-'^ Class of "Hi, CMNKusrrv ok .Michklw 

Tie came Id [\-isa(lcna several years a.^o vvitli health shat- 
tered and greatly discouraged. 

Under the inlluence of our mild climate, he slowly but 
surely hes^an to im])rove. 

llis step was more firm and (|uick, his eyes l)ri<;hter and 
his whole a])pearance more ])leasanl and natural. 

I\xceptinf4- an occasional return of his old trouble, these 
favorable conditions continut'd until a short time ago, when 
a change for the worse occurred. 

Comi)licalions set in and the end soon came. 

And so has passed away one of the most genial of men — a 
lo\ing husband, a kind neighl)or, a true friend. 

W e classmates who knew him so well can truthfuUv say 
his was a beautiful character, one thai is e.\cc])tionall\- rare 
among men. 

Among those attending the funeral exercises were judge 
W'illett, I'edrick. lUanchard and mvself. 

As to my own affairs, after 'cf(i years' service as Secretary 
of the first Land and Water Association of I'asadena, I gave 
U]) my ])osition, together with all other outside business, and 
in 1IM)4 went to h*uro])e for a year's trip with Mrs. liennett. 

Again in 1!H)S-1() we enjoyed two years more of tra\el, cov- 
ering not only the ])rinci])al points of intert-st in h'uropi-, but 
also those in Xorthern Africa and I'alestine. 

Since then I ha\e led a (piiet, unexentful home life in Pas- 
adena, in the same home in which Mrs. llennett and I have 
lived for -^(i years and on the same street on which T have 
lived for 40 years. 

Cordially yours, 

TTF.VRY G. BENNETT. 



DEI'AKT.MK.XT (tF I.riKKATrRi:, SCIKNTK AM) AUTS (>1) 

From Mrs. Christy. 

!)!» X. I ludson Ave, 
Pasadena, Cal., Jan. rid, li»l 1. 
My Dear Mr. Carter: 

I'ermil me to express to you my sincere thanks tor your 
kind. syiu])athelic letter, together witli llie \ery ])retty and 
suitable card which you ha\e been so i^ood as to send to my 
]nisl)and"s classmates. 1 shall treasure one of them and s;'nd 
(Mie to liis sister. 

Dr. (.'hristy felt a \ery tender aiTectit»n for his collene class, 
some of its mend)ers — your-elf amoii.i;' the nund)er bein^' i)ar- 
ticidarlv dear. It has l)een a sore (lisa|)])oinl ment to him that 
ill health has ])revenle(l his enjoyment of the \arious re-unions 
from time to time. 

A\'e ha\'e enjo\ed our California home — and 1 am siu'c our 
comiui^- here has added ten years to his life and to or.r time 
of hapjuness together. There is one friend very close, both 
to mv husband and to me, whom I would like \ery much to 
ha\'e notified, as I do not know hi'^ i)resenl address, lie has 
of late been traveliu,^- abroad — Mr. Everett Darrow. Mav I 
trouble von to do this favor for me, if }-ou can ascertain his 
whereabouts? 

Ycry truly and t^ratefully yours, 

RKRKCCA K. CHRISTY. 

EUGENE FRANCIS COOLEY, A. B. 
Born at Adrian, Mich., November 15, 1849. 

Address: DansiuQ". Mich. 

Since the publication of the former issue of 'TO's book, my 
davs have been passinq- swiftly along- on about the same lines 
as noted therein. ^\y record has been that of the ordinary 



7(1 Cr.ASS UF '70, L'X1VEK81TY OF MiCIIlG.lN 

business man, successful in a general way, but witli nothing 
remarkable to report in this day of large things. Have never 
held or sought i)ul)lic office of any kind, but have devoted my 
time to my business and famil}-, paying' only enough attention 
to politics to perform my duties as an American citizen, hence 
have only business and family matters to chronicle. 

At the present time my family consists of the wife, eight 
children and seventeen grandchildren. All my children are 
married and have done well. 

Edith married Arthur D. Baker, secretary and manager 
of the Michigan Millers Mutual Insurance Com]:)any, a very 
large and prosperous institution. They ha\e two children, 
Katherine, just graduating from Smith's College, and Stan- 
nard, now attending Xorthwestern Uni^'ersity. 

Fanny is the wife of Major Geo. M. Chandler, of the Reg- 
ular Army, now engaged in engineering work at Frankfort, 
Pa. They have one son. Bruce, now attending the U. of AT. 

Edgar E. is a ])rominent and successful business man of 
Eansing, secretary and manager of the Michigan Supply Com- 
pany, which is doing a large and ]:)rosperous business. He 
married June Davis of Eansing and they have four children, 
two boys and two girls. 

Elizabeth, wife of Frank B. McKibl)ier. well known and 
successful Eansing business man. Children, one boy and one 
girl. 

Frank married Clara Gower, daughter of C. A. Gower, of 
Eansing, and is now holding a responsible position with the 
Reynolds Cushion Spring Com];)any of Jackson ; also has a 
large dairy farm at Holt, Mich. They have no children. 

Eva is wife of Carl E. McAlvay, of Lansing, an ofificer of 
the Michigan Millers Insurance Company. They have five 
children. 



Department of Literatfre, Science and Arts 71 

Adaline C. Kessler lives in Lansing and has two children, 
a girl and a boy. 

David H., the yonngest. married Olive Richardson, and 
they have one child, a girl. David went to France with the 
army as 1st Sergeant of Engineers. Like so many others, he 
had to endure terrible hardship and privation, and, after the 
armistice, was brought home and sent direct to a hospital. 
After he had partially recovered, he went to his home at To- 
pinabee, in Northern Michigan, where he is now living in the 
endeavor to regain his health. 

In a business way, the Michigan Supply Company, which 
I founded nearly forty years ago, has been my mainstay, and 
I am still its President. The stock is all held in my family. 
I am still A'ice-President of the City National Bank, the ofifice 
which I have held since its organization in 1886. At the pres- 
ent time its deposits are around $L<M)0,0()(\ and it has been a 
very successful institution. 

I am still active in business, but have arranged luatters so 
that I can take a couple of months off in winter and summer. 
Have a summer cottage at Topinabee, in Northern Michigan, 
where wife and T and such of the children as can get away 
spend July and August. For the winter vacation I have a 
cottage under the "Tall Pines" at Winter Park. Orange Co., 
Florida, a most lovely spot, an earthl}^ paradise in fact, and at 
either one of these places, or at our home in Lansing, Mich., 
we should be most happy to welcome any member of our class 
who comes our way. 



Cr.ASS OF 'TO, rXTVEKSITV OF MICHIGAN 



JOHN LOVELAND CULLEY, C. E. 

Born at Ashtabula, O., October 11, 1847 — Died at Cleveland, 
O., February 5th, 1902. 

Class Letter. 

Warren. O., June 22, 1872. 

Fellow Classmates : 

I rejoice in the increase of '70 and that those two brave 
lads whose race for the 12th of August, 1871, will have their 
reward. Ah! Young W'inchell, fate seems to have been slow 
with you one day, but, my boy, be of good cheer. Your 
fathers in '7(» will stand between you and all harm. Walter 
Sylvester B. is of goodly proportions and parts and will share 
with you your joys and sorrows and your fathers will do 
equally well by both of you. 

Fellows, the thing uppermost seems to be "Are you mar- 
ried and how many have you? I am not married and there- 
fore I have none, ^ly autobiograph}- is as follows: The 
week after Conuuencement I took charge of the improvement 
and enlargement of Sandusky Harlx)r, Ohio, under U. S. 
engineers, where I remained until the last of Xovem'Der. I 
then returned to Ashtabula, where I busied myself luitil the 
last of Fel^ruary. "71 ; then spent two months in railroad work; 
then came home and remained till August, 1871. when I was 
emploved b\- the I'ennsyhania railroad, and frequently saw 
Hyde, Davock, "Dixie" and Meyendorff. the (Mdy four of 
the boys I have seen since graduation. 

Yours truly. 

JOHN LOVELAND CULLEY. 



Depart:mext of Litkuatuue. Scien'CE and Arts 73 

]\Ir. Culley in the last few years of his life took great inter- 
est in Class matters. He printed and distributed among the 
members, at his own expense, several circulars containing 
news about various movements and activities of the "boys" 
and traveled through the country with his wife and called on 
many. He was enjoying his leisure time by renewing his col- 
lege friendships. His death was unexpected. 

EDWARD EVERETT DARROW. 
Born at Meadville, Pa., October 28, 1846. 

Address: (iin W. lllth Street. New York City. 

The writer, continuing the sketch of his life from 190:5 up 
to the present date. Ai^ril, 1921, has a very clear-cut section 
with which to deal. In 190;! he was still in the traces, though 
he had, many years before, determined to get clear at the age 
of sixtv if the financial condition of the family would justify 
it. The family decided that it did, and a year earlier than he 
had fixed, in the summer of 1905, he resigned from a Chicago 
high school, thereby closing a continuous teaching period of 
thirty years. Of this period he would say that he enjoyed it 
all, and he severed his connection with teaching, with a cer- 
tain regret. While glad he made it his life-work then, yet if 
he were beginning again, with his present opinion of the con- 
ditions of the public school system, especially of large cities, 
both within and without, he would seek some other field. 

In 1905, then, he "retired" as the expression is, meaning in 
his own case that he was to divert his time and energy from 
"making a living" to the problem of getting the best value he 
knew how, out of life — living life as one would choose for the 
rest of his term freed from the "cost of existence." So he 
entered on his freedom. 



74 Class of 'TO, rxivKusiTY of Michigan 

He should say here that the last thing in the world that he 
had in mind was to drop activity. It was only to set it free 
from everything not done for its own sake. It took a little 
time, however, to "find himself." 

Fortunately his school work was chiefl}^ in directions in 
which he had great interest, in economics, government, his- 
tory and literature. 

Of course he was seeking the truth. How could a teacher 
be seeking anything else? Any error or falsehood creeping 
or injected into the investigation invalidates the conclusion as 
inevitably as it does in mathematics. In the field of pure 
science there is little motive for one to have any other aim 
than to establish the facts. No one seems to have any motive 
in obscuring them. They seem either to afifect all men impar- 
tial 1}' or not at all. 

r>ut in the field of human relations, e\'ery man feels a per- 
sonal interest. The investigator here is fighting a constant 
battle. 

Sufifice it to say that the writer finds this activity full 
of interest and sees no reas()n for thinking that the direction 
of his work will be materially changed in the future, subject, 
of course, to "circumstances over which he has no control." 

The year following his resignation was spent abroad. 
They traveled as a family, as also the next time thcA' were 
there, going in the summer of 1011 and returning in Septem- 
ber. inr2. The son, who had graduated in June, 1011, at the 
University of Chicago, u-ed the academic year in attending 
courses in Paris and Berlin, specializing in mathematics in 
the former and physics in the lati"er. Fortv-nine vears had 
passed since his father had spent a year in the same cities. 

The writer does not attempt to assign any special value to 
the-e two }'ears in Europe following his resignation, except 



Department of Litehatirk, ^^ciexce axd Arts 75 

for recreation and enjoyment, lie enjoyed revisiting" the old, 
with its added charm of old association, as well as the new, 
uuvisited before. Among these later impressions he recalls 
with unadulterated pleasure a week spent in the Harz at its 
freshest and most alluring" season, also when at Rome a trip 
into the Sabine country and the alleged site of Horace's villa 
on his "Sal)ine Farm." We saw the two claimants for the 
honor of being the site, but a year or two later saw an ac- 
count of the discovery of the "real" site a mile or two farther 
up the valle}' of the brawling Digentia. ■ We, however, stick 
to those we saw. 

Then, too, near Naples, the town of Baiae and its bay, and 
Lake Avcrnus, where Virgil located the place of descent of his 
hero, Aeneas, into the world l)elow. A signboard standing at 
the mouth of an apparent cave bore this ren"iarkable inscrip- 
tion : "Entrance to the Infernal Regions — Private." \\> 
feared Cerberus might I)e lurking" somewhere about the mouth 
and did not investigate. 

The fan"iily returned in V.)\'i, when the son took up 
graduate work at the L'niversity, iiiaking physics his specialty, 
and received his degree of Ph. D. in 1!)17. That summer he 
obtained a position as a research ph_^^~icist in the Western 
Electric Co. He came to Xew York in Septen"iber, 1917, and 
the other members of the family, the following month. 

Their present address is 610 W. 111th v^t. They will be 
glad to see any of the members of 'TO at any tin"ie. 

HARLOW PALMER DAVOCK, C. E., M. S. 

Born in Buffalo, N. Y., March U, 1848— Died at Bretton 
Woods, N. H., August 30, 1910. 

Mr. Davock was in attendance at our Class re-union in 
June, 1010, apparentl}' in excellent health, yet in about two 



7G Tlahs of 70, l\\ivERsiTY OF Michigan 

months from the time he left us for a short recreation trip in 
New Eno'land mountains, he was laid low. He, with his wife 
and others, had been u]) Mount Washington in the afternoon 
of the da}' of his death, and, on returning' to his hotel, sought 
his room for a little rest. Xot coming down stairs in about 
an hour, his wife went to the room and was shocked to find 
him in convulsions. He lasted but a short time thereafter. 
The burial t<tok place at Detroit. 

Classmate Bates writes froiu Detroit : "To nie, Davock 
was a very intimate friend, and 1 knew him perhaps better 
than any other one in his class, and his loss to me is a per- 
sonal bereavement. He had been here for nearly thirty years 
and I have known him intimately all this tinie and I had 
learned to admire hini. 1 considered him a man of niore than 
ordinarv ability and was a devoted member of the class. He 
took a great interest in everything' that concerned it. and 
especiallv its niembers. Xothing has impressed me so much 
of the uncertaint}' of life as Mr. Davock's death has done." 

Class Letter. 

Heart of Eg}']~)t, Illinois, June ";?!). 1872. 

In the words of IT. G. : "D " 

I dare and defv anyone to find a more uncivilized, barbar- 
ous, heathen and forlorn country than this. Am covered with 
flea bites, wood ticks and other vermin are my most aft'ection- 
ate companions. 

Interlude, Biography. 

After graduation, spent fall of "lo in ofiice of a civil engin- 
eer in Cleveland, then in November secured an appointment 
of engineer on St. L. & S. E. R. R. A\'as stationed succes- 
sively at Evansville, Ind. : Posey Co., Ind. ; Alt. Vernon. Ind.; 



l)Er.\KT.Mi:\T OF LriEUATT'KE, SCIKXCK AND ART8 77 

Wabash Bridi^e and Shawneetown, 111., until January 1st, 
1872, when the same company commenced this road. Have 
been leveler on St. L. & S. E. R. R. and as transitman and have 
liad charge of work. etc. At present have a division through 
the roughest part of Illinois, and, as I have ."i-!**) curves on my 
line (this is for C. E.'s), hope every one will have their life 
insured when this road is finished. Expect to be here until 
October. \A'as in Ann Arbor on January 5th, 18T2. Saw 
Price, Hyde, Day and ^^'inchel. Have met Campbell twice or 
three times in Cleveland and George Campau once in Detroit. 
Met "Dixie" Gilbert, Meyendortf and Culley on St. L. & S. E. 
R. R. Am not married, neither am I engaged. Have been in 
St. Louis several times, but never could hit Stevens. Am 
something of a walkist ; the other night missed a carriage and 
came 18 miles from the station after dark. If I am not on the 
road to glory, let me assure you. fellow Classmates, that I am 
at present where ye natives of Tennessee and North Carolina 
abound. Spend all the money I have in making trips North 
to find something to eat. Hope I may never see any of you 
down here unless you have a choice in regard to ])urgatory. 
There! I have him, and as Mr. Flea bows to me, flea-tingly I 
say farewell until '73. 

HARLOW P. DAVOCK. 
P. S. — Met Bird in Jackson a week ago. 

Nov. 6, 1876. Over four years have passed and here I am 
again. My life during the last year and one-half has been the 
same as Noble's. .\m at 85 Washington Avenue for the win- 
ter, Detroit, Mich. ; at Sault Ste. Marie for the summers. 
After leaving Egypt, T was at Cleveland, and from June, 1873, 
to October, 1874, was upon the Erie Railway in New York 
City. George Campau is even with Marsh — he has two. 
Alas! Poor Benedicts. It is rather embarrassing for us jolly 



TS Ci.Ass OF 70, UxnEitsiTY uF Michigan 

bachelors to know we are the object of envy of all such un- 
claimed mortals. H. P. D. 

Mr. Davock attended our class re-union in June, 1910. At 
that time he appeared as well as usual, except he had a weary 
look and -aid he was going; down East for a breath of moun- 
tain air. His friends were astonished, therefore, on seeing the 
following" in the Detroit Free Press September 10, 1910: 

Stricken by sudden illness, Harlow P. Davock, referee in 
bankru])tcy of the United vStates district court of the southern 
flivision of the eastern district of Michigan, died Tuesday 
night at P.retton AA'oods, N. H. Xo explanation of the cause 
of death has been received in this city, but it is supposed to 
have been an attack of heart disease. 

With Mrs. Davock, who was in feeble health, Mr. Davock 
went to the \\'hite mountains on a \^acation trip, leaving this 
city August 18. They spent some time at Balsam's Gap, N. 
H., and messages received from them by relatives here an- 
nounced that both were deriving great pleasure and benefit 
from the trip. From Palsim's Gap they went to Erctton 
Woods, a summer resort in Coos county. 

The suddenness of the end is shown by the fact that Ed- 
ward G. Wasey, representing parties in proceedings pending 
before Referee Davock, received a lengthy telegram from Mr. 
Davock Tuesday, naming places where communication might 
be had with Mr. Davock on his way back to Detroit. Mr. Da- 
vock's of^ce force had l)een notified that he planned to visit 
Boston and would start home from there next Saturday. Sou- 
venir postals with pleasant messages arrived for several of the 
clerks vesterday morning, just about the time news of his 
death also reached the ofiice on the fourth floor of the Trussed 
Concrete building. 



Department of Literature, Scienx'b and Arts 79 

Mr. Davock's career had been one of wide activity. Born 
in BulTfalo, 3Jarch 11, 1S4S, Harlow P'almer Davock was grad- 
uated from the high school of that city, and in 1870 from the 
literary department of the University of Michigan, helping 
himself through school and college by working- during vaca- 
tions. He began his l)usiness life as office boy in the employ 
of the Buffalo & Erie railroad at Buffalo. 

After finishing college, he was engaged as a civil engineer 
on many important railroad and engineering' projects. He 
served under Gen. Godfrey \\'eitzel, federal engineer at De- 
troit, assisting in the constructic^n of the W'eitzel lock at Sault 
Ste. Marie and the government docks at that place, and also 
in constriiction of the Cascade locks in Oregon. 

While working as a civil engineer, Mr. Davock formed a 
close friendship with Alfred XoIdIc, who has since gained wide 
fame as an engineer and was one of the consulting engineers 
on the Panama canal. He had planned to go hunting with 
Mr. Noble this summer, but was unable to arrange his vaca- 
tion to get away at the time expected. 

Mr. Davock finally took up the study of law, entering the 
offices of ]^Iaybury & Conely. in this city. He was admitted 
to the bar in 1S78 and began active practice in 18S2. A year 
later, January 4, 188:). he took as his bride Miss Sarah W. 
Peabody, their marriage taking place at St. Clair, Mich. 

Mr. Davock was a lifelong Republican. He served as a 
meml)er of the ^lichigan legislature in 18'.);!-9I; was a member 
of the board of health of I^etroit from March, 180,1, to March. 
1900. receiving- two appointments and serving two years as 
president. In 1804 he was United States chief supervisor of 
elections for the eastern district of Michigan. 

His appointment as referee in bankruptcy was made by 
judge H. H. Swan, of the United States (li>trict court, in Au- 



80 (M.Ass OF '70, r.\ivi<:KsiTV OF Michigan 

gust, ISilS, imnicdiaU'l}- aflcr wliat lias been (lcscril)e(l as the 
"new bankruptcy law,'" became operative. Mr. Davock had 
held the ])osition e\'er since, receiving a renewal of appoint- 
ment a few weeks ago. As referee he received no salary, the 
emoluments of the office being limited to fee fixed by law. 
The work of the office had increased to such a degree that Mr, 
Davock was forced long ago to abandon his prixate law prac- 
tice. 

As referee, he was noted for his fairness and courtesy to 
those ha\ing lousiness with the ofiice. Manv of the younger 
attorneys of the city ha\'e recei\ed helpful suggestions from 
him. and he was e\-er watchful to ])revent older practitioners 
from taking ad\antage of the inex])erience of younger men. 

For many _\ears Mr. Davock was an acti^•e member of the 
Delta I\ap])a T^]:)silon fraternit}-. and one of the proudest days 
of his life was when he assisted in the initiation of one of his 
sons into the same fraternity, lie was an active member and 
a trustee in A\'estminster Presbyterian church and was sel- 
dom absent from the church on v^unday. unless out of the 
city or detained 1)\- illness, lie was a nKMnber also of the 
Sons of the American Re\-olution of the l^niversity Club and 
of the Detroit r)oat Club. For several }-ears he had been a 
non-resident lecturer in the law department of the University 
of Aiichigan on " r>ankrui)tcy Practice." 

lu'sides his widow, he is surx'ived by two sons, both civil 
emjim'crs and graduates of the Uni\ersity of Michigan. They 
are Clarence A\'. DaA'ock, associated with the Detroit Steel 
Products Company, and llarlow \oble Davock, assistant to 
Gardner AA'illiams, of the euL'ineerin"' df]iartment of the Uni- 
ver^itv (^f Michigan. De leaves also brother, A\\ P.. Davock, 
prominent vesselnian of Cleveland, and two sisters, the Misses 
Hlla and 1 lattie Davock. 



Depautment of T.ri-KKATnu:, Scuknce and Auts 81 

R. S. Mason. \ice-])rcsi(lent of the Peoples v^late Bank, is 
a l)rother-in-lavv, as is also A. B. Raymond, former engineer 
of the health board. 

Following' the recei])t of the news of Mr. Davock's illness, 
Tuesday night, his son Clarenee started east. He heard of his 
father's death in IhilTalo and went on to New ITamjishire. 

GEORGE ELLIS DAWSON, A. M. 
Born at Laomi, Sangamon Co., 111. 

Address: First National Hank Building, Cddeago, 111. 

Since the ])ul)lication of our Class Book in 1!)(K), the events 
in my life are not exceptional. IMie death of my oldest son 
at the age of eighteen, and that of my yc^ungest at the age of 
twenty-two, ha\'e left their deepest scars. My son, Manierre, 
after gTaduatiug in the course of Civil Kngineering at Armour 
Institute in Chicago, was employed by the tiriu of Ilolabird 
& Roche, architects for luany of Chicago's most important 
business and ])ublic buildings, for a period of three and one- 
half years, then after s])ending a year in ])ainting in oils and 
water colors, and six months in travel abroad, decided that he 
preferred farming" to an}- other occupation, and since 1914 has 
been living in Mason Couutv, Michigan, about ten luiles south 
of Ludington. 

He married a young lady of the neighborhood and they 
have a boy and two girls. 

My son Mitchell graduated in the Literary Department of 
the University of Chicago in the Class of 1911, and from the 
Law School in the Class of 1913, having meanwhile taken a 
six months' trip abroad. 

He came into my office, where he has been since with an 
interval of a vear and one-half in the army. The firm is now 
Dawson & Dawson. 



82 Cla«s of 70, UxivEusiTY OF Michigan 

On March 8tli, lO'^l, my son Mitchell married Miss Rose 
Hahu, who had been a student at the L'niversity of Wisconsin, 
and also at Smith College, Northampton, Mass. 

I have always had an office in the First National Bank 
lUiildini.^" in Chicago since entering into the practice of the 
law. My partnership with Isaac H. i'edrick, after a dnration 
of over twenty years, was dissolved in 19U4 by the retirement 
of Mr. Pedrick on account of ill health. Mr. Pedrick has re- 
sided for the past fifteen years at Pasadena, Cal. 

My life has been one of uniform regularity. My business, 
like that of all lawyers, has ccMisisted of many unimportant 
matters, and some of more or less im])ortance. I have often 
thought, and so expressed myself, that I might have been a 
better, or at least a greater lawyer, if I could have brought 
myself to give a more undi\ided attention to law to the exclu- 
sion of other interests. 

This I have never permitted myself to do. I have made it 
a rule to take no work home with me except in cases of im- 
perative necessity, occasions which come to all lawyers, but I 
have made it a point to reserve my evenings for my family 
and for the pursuit of literature and music. 

I organized a musical club called "The Vorwaerts Clul)," 
which met once a month at my house. At the time of its in- 
ception, I was the tenor of the ((uartette at one of the leading 
churches, having so served in different churches for ten years 
after coming to Chicago. 

The A^orwaerts Club was composed of men and women 
who had given serious attention to music. Most of them be- 
longed to church choirs and some were teachers. Among 
them, P. C. Lutkin, now for many years at the head of the 
Musical Department of the Northwestern Tniversity at 
Evanston, 111. 



iJEPARTiMBXT OF LiTERATrRi:, SCIENCE AND ArTS 83 

The object of the Club was to give an opportunity for the 
elaborate study of music of importance which was worth seri- 
ous study and would not usually be produced at concerts. 
Being prepared for an audience, which, l)y previous training 
and musical experience, was well fitted to know what was best 
in music and in musical interpretation, the op])ortunity was of 
great value. 

The meetings were most enjoyable and continued over a 
period of six or seven years. 

It may be remarked that I still "keep u])" my music and 
with ]\Trs. Dawson as an accomplished accomi)anist, few even- 
ings are passed without the singing of a dozen or more songs. 
A wide field is open among English, American and foreign 
songwriters, and bf)th Airs. Daw-on and myself being excel- 
lent readers of music, new music is taken up and read with 
the pleasant anticipation wnth which new books are opened 
and read, of course with the attendant result of approval or 
disapproval, according to the success of the com])oser. 

Since the avowed ]nirpose of these records is to give to 
classmates some information as to the spiritual and possibly 
mental growth of the m-inbers of the c^ass, it may be men- 
tioned that I deliberately chose to defer the period of enter- 
ing into the law anrl went abroad for the purpose of continu- 
ing mv study of foreign languages, in wdiich I had become 
greatly interested. T made sufficient progress to be enabled to 
read French, Italian and G'^rman in the languages themselves 
without conscious translation, and also acquired a serviceable 
use of them in conversation. 

Although these studies were taken up solely for cultural 
purposes thev have been of t'-'" preates^ practical advantage, 
I having had almost constant use of them, particularly of 
Italian, since the beginning of my practice. 



84 Class of '70, L'xiveusity of .Miciiioax 

One experience in this connection was the formation of a 
little German Clnh called Die Rundetafel, of which Mr. and 
Mrs. Darrovv were mem])ers (lurin<^- a period of over thirty 
years of its existence. It be.yan in 1SS.1 and continued with 
some intcrru])tions until lOKi, when the Harrows removed to 
New York. It met at first weekl}- and then twice monthly. 
It went (uer the whiole field of German literature from the 
Xiebelun^en Lied to the most modern works of Hauptmann 
and Siulermann. The chief works of the best authors were in 
turn studied, one member pre])arin^i>' questions on the allotted 
matter read, the answering and discussion of which in Ger- 
man took up the evening's session. 

My reading has been continuous and di\-ersitied and in the 
different languages. A favorite line is autobiographv and 
biography. I usually read from three or four to a dozen or 
more volumes per month. 

Since the year 1H98 I have had the hal)it of making a mem- 
orandum of the books read from month to month. A summary 
of these memoranda would read something like what is showm 
in the Autobiography of Governor Pennypacker of Pennsyl- 
vania, which many of the Class may have read. 

The annual list runs from forty-one to one hundred and 
twenty-eight volumes per year, or an average of over sixty 
volumes. I do not claim that I ha\e derived any great store 
of permanent knowledge from this reading, but I have been 
keenly interested in my subjects, and no doubt a few crumbs 
have been digested and assimilated, adding to my spiritual and 
intellectual health. 

I joined the Chicago Literary Club in the year 1891 ami 
have been a somewhat constant attendant at its meetings, 
which occur every Monday night from October to the middle 
of lune. This Club was organized thnnigh the efforts of 



Department of Literature, Science and Arts 85 

Librarian Poole, the author of the PeriocHcal Index, and 
others, and has had many eminent men among its members. 
For example, Rol:)ert Collyer, Brooke Herford, Professor 
Swing" and four members of Presidential Cabinets. 

In this connection I have derived great pleasure from gath- 
ing the material for and preparing papers to be read before the 
Club. The following are some of the subjects: The Integral 
Phalanx, Diary of Henry Crabb Robinson, Mary Wollstone- 
craft and The Rights of Woman, Amiel et Son Journal Intime, 
The Holland Land Company, The Story of a Very Great 
Writer (^^'illiam li. Hudson. Naturalist). These papers were 
sometimes "on the block" from six months to a year, requir- 
ing research, correspondence and the selection of material. 

Prior to the year 190.") courts presided over by Justices of 
the Peace were the imperfect tribunals before wliich small 
claims were litigated in Chicago. The failure of justice was 
in many cases flagrant, and, after much discussion and agita- 
tion, a law was passed in 190.") establishing Municipal Courts, 
covering certain specified districts in the City of Chicago. 

The two parties were, of course, eager to capture the 
places. A strong movement, however, arose, to place an inde- 
pendent ticket in the field, and at the solicitation of those in- 
terested in this movement, I permitted my name to be placed 
upon the ticket. As usual, the rank and file clung to the par- 
ties, and, although the ticket had over forty thousand votes, 
the Republicans elected their candidates by a plurality equal 
to the vote of Democrats and Independents combined. Not 
having expected an election, it was no disappointment. The 
Municipal Court now has thirty judges and is a very impor- 
tant part of our judicial system. 

I have not until very recently given any thought to the 
fact that I am in the ranks of those beyond the allotted three 



8() 



Class ok 'T((, rxivKusiTV of AIicjihjan 



score and [vu. ( )n rraliziiit; thai four o\ llic Class lia\c jjasscd 
away since our rc-nnii»ii in 1I)"<?0, two n\ wlioin were present 
and apparently in almost a> j^ond a physical condition as I 
was, I l^ei^in to roali/e that I shall not j^o on forever. Al the 
same tiuK' I hope to continue m\- interest in my daily pur- 
suits and recreations, so loni^ as 1 am i)ermitted to do so, with- 
out an\' unnecessar\' dwelling upon the mexitahle shortness 
of the time yet hefore me. 

In looking hack, the important tiling, of course, with me, 
as with us all, has heeu to make a li\in,L;. That ha> tilled u]) 
the length ;ind hreadth of life. Sonu'times one leels th.at more 
miL;ht ha\e heeu done in this direction or that, either hy way 
of self-impro\ement or to help some other waytarers. 

W hen 1 wish to .L^ain a little rellected i;lory in the eyes of 
people I meet, I am apt to mention heloni^in^ tc) a class that 
had .amonu;' its memhers a Ci\il I'.n^ineer ot world-wide rep- 
utation, a v^ccretary of v^late and Judi^e of the Supreme Court 
of the United v^tatcs, two eminent newsj)a])er men who he- 
came vSecretaries of s^reat l{x])ositions, to mention hut a few, 
and that three memhers of my Class, Day, as v^ecretary of 
Stale; Haker as ( ieo,L;ra])her, and I'entield, as SolicitiU' ol tlu- 
department of State, were present al the peace uci^oliations 
ending' the v'^^panish War. 

I also sometimes mention that while i)rincii)al of the 
Peoria Hi^h School. I prepared Cric'r llihheu for rrinceton 
ITniversilw lie is now its I'resident, haxinj; succeeded W'ood- 
row \\'ilson. 



Dki'Aktmkxt of LriKUATiui:, Scik.xck a.\i> Airrs 87 

JUSTICE WILLIAM RUFUS DAY, B. S., LL. D. 

Born at Ravenna. O., April 17, 1849. 

Address: VVasliiiis^ton, I). C. 

In Fc'l)niary, 1 !»();!, I 'resident Roo.-evelt nominated Jnstiej 
Day from the Cireuit Court of A])])eals to the L'nited States 
Stiprcme Court l)cneh, to wliieh he was at once confirmed h}- 
the Senate, and he took his seat on March '' of the same year. 
From that time to tlie ])resent his judicial record shows con- 
tinuous, efficient and distiuL^uished services to our country in 
its hi^Iiest court. 

Jttstice Day and wife were present at our Class re-union 
at Ann Arbor in June. IDOa. The Class rememl)ers with much 
]ileasure their presence at our l)an(iuet tal)le and the interest 
they took in the welfare of all the "boys" and their famihes. 
Two of their sons are almuni of our Cniversity. It will be 
remembered that the Alumni of the University o( Michigan 
tendered Mr. justice Day a great bancpiet in New^ York City 
in Fel)ruary. 1011. at whicli a thousand or more sons of the 
University, including a considerable nundn-r of our class were 
present and enjoyed a most happy re-union. No pains were 
spared to make the banquet a success. It was a very enthu- 
siastic gathering and trul\- a national dinner and gave evi- 
dence to the eastern i)ortion of tlie country of the importance 
of the great University of Michigan as an educational factor, 
as well as showing the loyalty of her Alumni there assembled 
from every part of the country. 

The following letter ex]:)lains itself: 



88 Class of 70, rxivKRsrry of ^Michigan 

Mackinac Island, Mich., Aug'. 7, 1920. 
Mr. C. S. Carter, 
Secretary, Class of 'TO, 
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 
Dear Carter: 

I have your circular letter addressed to the survivors of the 
Class of 'TO askin.^" for data with a view to publishing a supple- 
ment to (Hir Class history. Complying therewith. I have to 
say : 

in March, litO.!. 1 I)egan service as a Justice of the Supreme 
Court of the United States, which 1 have found a steady job 
from that time to this. Fortunately 1 have had sufficient 
health and strength to attend to the duties of the place, except 
for a severe attack of influenza in January. 1!)16. which inca- 
pacitated me from service for the rest of that term. 

In January. IDl'^, the greatest bereavement which can come 
to a man overtook me in the loss of m\- wife after a married 
life of thirty-six years. 

Our boys all chose the profession of law. The two elder, 
William and Luther, are ])ractising law in the city of Cleve- 
land. Stephen is following his profession in Chicago, and 
Rufus, the youngest, is practising in Washington, D. C. I 
make my home with Rufus and his family. My oldest son, 
A\'illiam L., was appointed to the Federal Bench by President 
Taft, having previousl}- served as L'nited States Attorney by 
appointment of IVesident Roosevelt. After three years of 
ju<licial service, he returned to the practice as he regarded the 
judicial salary inadequate to support a growing family. I 
have been greatly blessed by the success of my boys, and the 
four fine daughters which they have brought into the family 
by marriage, and an interesting and lively group (^f ten grand- 
children. 



Department of Literature, Science and Arts 89 

. I need not repeat how much I regret my inabihty to be 
with the boys at the Class Re-union last June. I have had the 
pleasant experience of meeting some of them from to time in 
Washington. As we grow older, the friendships of our youth 
make the strongest appeal. I hope whenever you come my 
way you will give me the pleasure of seeing you. 
As ever, 

Cordially your friend, 

WILLIAM R. DAY, 

CHARLES KEENE DODGE, A. B. 

Born in Town of Blackman, Jackson Co., Mich, April 26, 1844 
—Died at Ann Arbor, Mich., March 22, 1918. 

Class Letter. 

Jackson. Mich.. July 31, 18T6. 
My Dear Boys of '70 : 

On receiving this mammoth letter my enthusiasm was 
almost too much for me, and I came very near letting off an 
involuntary yell. Two years have now passed since gradua- 
tion, and I believe every one of us is alive and doing well. 

Autobiography. 

In the summer of 1870, after much vexation of spirit, I 
found a position as principal in a school at Rockland, Onton- 
agon County, Mich., among the copper regions, where I have 
since remained, and shall also teach there the coming year. 
Boys, as to love matters you know at college I was always 
verv innocent and unpretending. 

After leaving Ann Arbor, I even called myself "Innocence 
Abroad the Second," but alas ! how the things of this world 
will change. For instance, who would have thought that our 



90 Class of 70, Uxiversity of Michigan 

modest Ballenger was going to get the cup. Cupid has cer- 
tainly hit me in the region of the stomach, but I cannot tell 
you what may be the result. Boys, let me have all of your 
prayers, for, as one of you says, the matrimonial testimony of 
'70 is conflicting. 

I saw Noble and "Dixie" Gilbert at the Sault Ste. Marie 
Canal, Bird, Bumpus, Fleming, Mickle and Wing are at Jack- 
son. Boys, I am going to vote for Greeley, but it is the hard- 
est thing I ever did. 

Yours for ever, 

CHAS. K. DODGE. 

j\Ir. Dodge continued the practice of law^ at Port Huron at 
the same time holding a position in the U. S. Custom House 
at that place up to the time of his death, March 22, 1!»1S. 

Some mystery surrounded the death of his widow, which 
has not been solved so far as the Secretary of the Class knows. 
Her bodv was found in St. Clair River October IG, 1918. 

WILLIAM THOMAS EMERSON, B. S. 

Born at Racine, Wis., July 23, 1848— Died at Racine, Wis., 
August 29, 1897. 

Class Letter. 

Racine, Wis.. August 17, 18T2. 
Classmates of 'TO : 

My half sheet to add to this mass of evidence of the pros- 
perity of '7 has been delayed much longer than I should have 
desired on account of illness, — not that kind of illness we were 
wont to have three or four years ago, but a real bona fide case 
of gripes and summer complaint, which, however, leaves me 
just now rather weak in the pins, etc. 1 had quite the stand- 



Depautmext of Literatt'RE, Scikxck axu Arts 91 

arc! amount of "feeling" on receiving' this package direct from 
Edwards on the Tth of tliis month, and with the rest of you, 
doubtless, shed ni}- (crocodile) tears for poor Pat Bumpus. 
No man of "TO who has with his e}'es open got himself into 
such a fix will receive any sAinpathy here, you bet. But that 
is neither here nor there, so as desired 1 give you my eventful 
history since graduation, to-wit : Spent part of the summer 
and fall of '70 on Lake Michigan on the Lake Survey. From 
December, 'TO, to the present time have been reading law in 
a law office in Racine with but few interruptions. No pros- 
pects of an}' marriage with me, nor the responsil)ility of any 
additions to the poj^ulation. 

Yours in 'TO, 

WILLIAM T. EMERSON. 

Following- item referring to the death of Mrs. Eliza Emer- 
son, mother of our deceased classmate, is taken from the Ra- 
cine Daily News under date of July 10, 1911 : 

In the death of Mrs. Eliza Emer.-on, here Sunday, at the 
age of almost 10"^ years, there passed away one of Southern 
\\"isconsin's most famous women pioneers. She was belie\ ed 
to have been in fact the oldest woman in the -outhern part of 
the state. 

Mrs. Emerson was born Feb. 14, ISIO, in New Hampton, 
N. H., her maiden name having been Eliza Woodman. She 
was married to Thoma- J. Emerson in 184:), and they came to 
Racine in 1844. Tier husband was the founder of the Racine 
Linseed Oil Company. 

Mrs. Emerson was a woman of many brilliant attainments, 
being educated in Latin, Greek, Italian and French. She was 
a g-raduate of New Hampton seminary, and at one time con- 
ducted a seminarv at Parsonfield, where she taught classes in 



92 Class of 70, Univeusity of Michigan 

the languages above named. She was a daughter of the Rev- 
ohition. 



CHARLES S. EDWARDS, A. M. 
Born in Marshall County, 111., November 6, 1840. 

Address: Eldorado, Kansas. 
Class Letter. 

Sparland, 111., Aug. 5, 1872. 

Brothers of 'TO : 

On returning from a little visit of recreation I found this 
little budget of letters in the office which before opening I 
took to be a parcel of handbills from Carter announcing that 
he, his son or grandson would lecture in our place, but was 
much surprised to find the Class letter which 1 supposed to 
be dead, dead, dead. In regard to my feelings on receiving 
it I can only say, blessed be the man of "70 who originated the 
idea of a Class letter. The all important question seems to 
be are you married? Well, yes, I believe I am, according to 
my understanding of the case, which event took place on the 
28th of March, 1871, to ^^liss Mattie Boys of Lacon. 111. You 
know I was always afraid of the girls, so thought I would 
take one of the boys. Have you a competition for the cup? 
Not any and my mind is greatly agitated with doubts and 
fears in respect to the future. ()h. ye lawyers of '70! Already 
ye are beginning to raise strife and tliat, too. among your 
brethren. Now let Ballinger and A\'inchell alone. They are 
honorable, upright men and will settle the baby question 
amicably. 



DErAHTMKXT OF LlTKHATrRI], Sl'IEXCf: AND ArTS 93 

i^h. Pat ! 1 thought you would go astray when I was no 
longer beside you to pull your hair and minister the rod of 
correction. I pray you mend your ways. 

Success and prosperity to all of '70. 

Yours forever in the bonds of '70, 

C. S. EDWARDS. 

Edwards remained at York. Xeb., until about 1!)10, when 
he removed to Eldoratlo. Kan., to be near relatives. He has 
been able to attend but one Class reunion. In 191U he sent 
word that he regretted he could not go to Ann Arbor to meet 
the class, but in referring to his health stated that, '"the people 
here generally take me to be from five to eight years younger 
than I am. I am the wonder of all the people here that I can 
do so much." He was then in his seventieth year. 

In April, 1914, Edwards wrote from Eldorado, Kan., stating 
that his wife had relatives there and none at York, hence their 
change of residence. He also stated that his hearing had been 
greatly impaired by a severe attack of typhoid fever in 1893 
and that he had been compelled to abandon his profession of 
teaching on that account : that he was then following a quiet 
life, doing a little dairy work ; that his health was fairly good 
for one of his age. He said: "I often think of my old Class 
mates and wonder how they are and where they are and what 
they are doing. Am always glad to hear anything about them. 
My best wishes always go with every member of my old 
Class of '70. A tie w^as formed during those four years of 
college life that nothing can ever sever." 

After the death of Fearon, Foster and Edwards were the 
two oldest members still living; Foster died Feb. 10, 1981. 



94 Class of '70, rxivKUSiTY of Michigan 

RUSSELL ERRETT, A. B. 
Born at New Lisbon, O., September 6, 1845. 

Address: Christian Standard, bth, !>lh and Cutter Sts., Cin- 
cinnati, O. 

Bro. Errett writes January (5, 1921 : 

I would be glad to forward something with regard to my- 
self, but the older 1 grow the less I am inclined to write at 
all, particularly of my own personal affairs. It was my in- 
tention to send something for the Class Reunion [last June], 
but in the multiplicity of business it was entirely over- 
looked. I will, however, take a few minutes this afternoon 
and pen something that will answer for copy — if it does noth- 
ing more than that. 

Cincinnati, Ohio, 
January 6, 1921. 

MEMORANDUM. 

Perhaps the most striking icaturc, to the Class, in this at- 
tempted sketch, will be the fact that in the fifty years that 
have intervened since the graduation, I have hardly seen a 
classmate except at the reunion in 1910. Barring that oc- 
casion, I do not remember having encountered a single one 
of our number — except Baker, shortly after graduation. 
Whether this is due to Cincinnati's indubitable position as 
the 'Hub of the Universe' — requiring all subordinate bodies to 
revolve around anfl never, no never, to pass through it — I 
leave to the wisdom of the Class. I simply record the fact. 

Thanks to Friend Carter, — who is obviou^^ly the best secre- 
tary any Class ever had — the darker side of our Class history 
has inevitably been kept before us in the deepening shadow 



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of the fateful tidings, as one by one the boys pass over the 
Great Divide. Yet, at TG 1 find how good the years have been 
to us, that so many are now left. Surely in the light of this, 
our Indian Summer, there is much to be thankful for amid 
all the deplorable losses of the past. 

On my own part, I am thankful for the fifty years of school- 
ing given me since we took our Degrees. Following the 
publishing business as a calling, I have spent fifty years in 
the service of the Standard Publishing Company which in that 
time has grown more than fifty fold. In that service I have 
learned the value of the Sermon on the Mount, and believe it 
to be the one panacea of the ills that now multiply around tis. 

That sums up my business life. 

Have twice been married. First in 1879, to Mary Glass, of 
Cincinnati, Ohio, whom I lost in l.ScSS. \\'e had three chil- 
dren, all now living and all married. Ilallie M., luarried to 
Roy Slifer, ()aklan(l, California; John P.. married to Aleen 
Reed; Corine \'., married to Harry M. P)aird, Jellico, Tenn. 

Second in 1890, to Augusta Tomlinson, of Oxford, Missis- 
sippi, having three children: Russell, (died in 1912); Mal- 
colm, (died in 1913) ; Henry T., married to Mary Flynn. 

Two grand children — the children of John P. 

My home is at Terrace Park, thirteen miles h-am Cincinnati, 
Ohio, where we have Wved for thirty-one years. 

For further particulars look in any good history of the 
Country. 

RUSSELL ERRETT. 



JMi 



Ci.Ass oi' 70, r.xivKusrrv of Mkjuigan 




Departmext of Literature, Science and Arts 97 

ROBERT NEWTON FEARON, A. M. 

Born in Madison County, N. Y., March 14, 1839.— Died at 
Ironton, O., January 18, 1910. 

Class Letter. 

Oneida, N. Y., Dec. 1, 1874. 
My Dear Classmates : 

Upon arriving home this morning' after an ahsence of about 
two years, imagine my feelings when T unearthed a pile of 
letters which upon examination I found to be the Class letter 
of '70. At once I could see the ghosts of seventy familiar 
faces rising up to accuse me. I criminate myself for want 
of more precaution, l)ut let me explain. Upon leaving home 
some two years since, I left directions to have my mail for- 
warded to me at Minneapolis, Minn., and ordinary letters were 
so forwarded, but ui)on arrival of this, father interprets by 
saying that he supposed it to be an old file of letters or papers 
that had been sent to me for safekeejiing, and without the 
slightest examination laid them away and never said "boo." 
Humbly begging the pardon of the Clas-. an(' trusting that 
'ere this other Class letters have been started, 1 will give a few 
words of personal history and send the Inidget to our secre- 
tary to be disposed of as he will better know how to dispose 
of it. 

February. '71, held the position of principal nf the public 
schools of lon'a, Michigan. Married during the summer vaca- 
tion in New York state ; went to ?vIinneapolis, Minn., engaged 
in business during '72 ; acted as principal of the high school 
of that citv during '73 ; engaged in the flouring business in '74, 
in which I am still engaged. Have a boy sixteen months old 
and fair prospects for the future, v'^hould there be another 



i)S Class of 70, University of Michigan 

Class letter in circulation, hope it may not pass me and I will 
take clue precaution that it suffers no delay. 

Fraternally Yours, 

R. H. FEARON. 

Mr. Fearon continued in the lunil)er l)usiness from IDOri up 
to the time of his demise, which is described in the following 
obituary notice : 

Taken from the fronton, O.. Register, of January 3T, 1910. 

Sadness reigned last week in the home of R. N. Fearon, 
husband, father, citizen, christian gentleman, whose spirit took 
its flight near the midnight hour Tuesday night, January 18, 
1!»10, for that country from whence no traveler returns. The 
visit of the messenger of death into this home was, however, 
not unexpected as Mr. Fearon had been in very poor health 
for over three long years and had at intervals during that time 
been very low, but would survive, and improve sufficiently to 
get away to other climes for relief. But deatli, that arch 
enemy of us all comes as a grievious blow even though it is 
expected. 

About three years ago, Mr. Fearon's family physician fonnd 
his patient suffering with arterio sclerosis, or hardening of the 
arteries, this trouble soon produced asthma and other compli- 
cations and ad\'ise(l an innuediate change of climate and 
scenes, so at once Mr. Fearon and his e\"er faithful wife, went 
to California for a jjrolonged sta}'. ho]^ing to secure not only 
temporarv relief but a permanent cure. Several months were 
spent in the most delightful part of that state, but at last a 
longing for home and old associations l)r(~)ught tliem back to 
Ironton, the patient improved, but not permanently benefitted. 
This has been repeated for two summers since the California 
tri]). each time going to Ray View, ATich.. that most delight- 
ful climate during the summer season. Here Mr. Fearon 



Department of Literature, Science and Arts 99 

could not onh' get the benetit of the bracing' and healthful 
Michigan climate, but was most of the time in that splendid 
intelligent and religious atmosphere which abounds especially 
during the summer Chautauqua held at that great resort. 
Each season a nice quiet cottage was rented and there every- 
thing known was applied to make the patient comfortable 
and happy. After the return from Michigan last fall, there 
seemed to be quite an improvement in Mr. Fearon's condi- 
tion, indeed for some time he was able to attend the Sabbath 
morning services at Spencer. This continued until about two 
months ago, since which time he has gradually been growing 
weaker and weaker until Tuesday morning, it was ^ccn loy all. 
that the end was near. 

During all these years of sickness all that loving hands and 
hearts could do to make Mr. Fearon comfortal^le and free 
from pain was done. After a faithful wife's exhaustion from 
loss of rest and sleep, competent nurses were in attendance 
and it was all so greatly appreciated l)y the sutferer, Mr. 
Fearon often speaking of how every want was anticipated. 
Twentv-iive years ago, Mr. Fearon moved to fronton fro-.r 
Catlettsburg, where he had been attracted on account of tlv;" 
Sandv Valley being such a great lumber producing section 
of the countrv. He at once established the Fearon Lumber 
Co. of which he was and has remained its ])resident. During 
the last few years of his active life with this company — he 
trained and educated a coterie of young mjn, who proved 
to be experts in the business and have been able to conduct 
the affairs of the company successfully all during the illnes^ 
and absence of their chief. During the life of this plant, it 
-'^'ent throagh a very disastrous fire some 12 years ago, but 
was rebuilt and its greatest success came after that time. At 
one time Air. Fearon wis a niember of the citv councd, l)nt 



IC'O Class of T((, I'mnkusitv ok M ichkiax 

that is the oulv i)ul)hc office he e\'er hehl. (lechniiiL; all otliers. 
lie was a dexoted luemher (jf Spencer M . \\. church, a iiieiii- 
l)er of the official hoard of that ori^anization and one of the 
real, solid substantial men of that institution, a man with 
whom the minister was always i^lad to advise and consult and 
to whom all the people could look with confidence and a feel 
ini;' of t^enuinc sincerity. 

LUTHER ELLIOTT FERGUSON, C. E. 
Born on a farm near White Pigeon, Mich., September 22, 1845. 

/\d(lress: White i'i^eon, Mich. 

vSeventy-fi\'e years old v^ept. 2,^, li)'<J(), I refer the other sur- 
\ivors of 'iO, who ma\' he interested in this, m\' last autobio- 
,^ra])hic sketch, to Carter's llistorx' of IS!)1, in which ma)' be 
found a few autobiographic statements in outline of my youth- 
ful actix'ities to that date. Inirthcr refer to Carter's History 
of 1 !>();> for more facts edited in the lani^uai^e of third person. 
Note the dilTt'rcnce in style. Since r.Mi;'., 1 ha\e been busy for 
the <4()od of others; ])ro(lucinL;' foodstufbs in cpiantity sufticient 
and in pleasin,^ \ariety enoui^h to iced indirectly all the sur- 
vivors of '70. In working" out this stunt I have enjoyed t^ood 
health, plnsicalK'. menlall}', morally. 

In this month of ( )ctol)er, 1!)';!(), I ha\'e ])icke(l off ai)])les ; 
standing' on a ladder and liml)S of the trees on my orchard; of 
a ])rize (piality, and in ipiantily for the coming winter need 
of all the surx'ivor's of 'TO. Come to Rix-erside, please, and 
j^et your indixidnal allotment. 

A\'hen the i;reat world war had been carr\'in^' on a month, 
it occurred to me that the only way for me to read the histor}' 
of it would be day by day as the war ])ro,^ressed. So my 
recreation for >i.\ \ear has been a close stu(h' of events, and a 



Department of Litbratuke, Science and Arts 101 

filing" away of authentic facts. And when llu- armistice be- 
gan, I commenced to formulate in my own mind how the final 
peace terms should be arranged, and what should be the fate 
of some (.)f the belligerent nations, and rulers thereof, respons- 
il)le for the de\astating fracas. 

Then 1 thought of a possibility that nations should go to 
war no more, and how this peace arrangement should be con- 
summated. I wrote down my own views in anticipation of 
wdiat should be done at the coming peace conference. T will 
say at the end of two years that my views of right, justice, 
progress and ]:)rosperity have not been \'ery closely followed 
by the great statesmen of the world in their attem])t at polit- 
ical world reconstruction. 

I am not ]:)lease(l with the league of nations as written out. 

ATy idea was: After a suitable ])reamble, to agree to and 
sign up two resolutions by the peace makers in peace conven- 
tion assembled, and invite all the nations of the world to sub- 
scribe to it. Resolved by the undersigned allied nations in con- 
vention assembled: That there shall be no more wars l)etween 
nations in the future. 

Resolved, that we the undersigned association of nations 
will take any and all situable peaceable measures to enforce 
the principle set forth in resolution one. 

Those two resolutions would have been acceptable by every- 
one as the beginning, and sufficient to addition of details 
later; as agreement and harmony wouhl dictate, to ])ro\i(le for 
a yearly assemblv of statesmen to work out international 
problems. And a court of twelve eminent jurists in contin- 
uous ses-^ion to finally decide the right of all international 
controversies. An association of nations should be founded 
on a few principles of universal acceptance, sul)jcct to a con- 
tinuous pTOwth. from v^^nr to year, of additional principles as 



102 Class of 'TO, rxi\i;usiTV of .Michigan 

could 1)6 agreed upon. TTowever I shall not vote in the cnn- 
iuL;" referendum, Nov. 2, to advise our country to partici])alc 
in llic league as set forth hv the four great world statesmen. 

ACHILLES FINLEY, A. B. 

Born in Calloway Co., Mo., May 15, 1843. — Died at Fulton, 
Mo., May 15, 1916. 

Mr. I'^inley serx'cd several terms as district attorney at Ful- 
ton, Calloway Count}-, Mo., and continued in the practice of 
law at Fulton until his death. May IT), lOKI. He never at- 
tended any of the Class reunions and hut little was lieard 
from him aftc'r he left the Universitv. 

EDWIN FLEMING, A. M. 
Born at West Lebanon, Warren Co., Ind., December 11, 1847. 

Address: lUiffalo Clul). I'.utTalo, N. Y. 

ICd win hdeming's father, Jackson hMeming, was a ])h\sician 
at W est Lahauon, where Edwin's early education was ac- 
(piired in the common schools, supplemented ])y one year's 
study at Indianapolis. lie entered the I ini\-ersit\- of Miclii- 
gan in Septemher, lS(i.-), hut withdrew for one year during 
which he taught school and returned in Se])teml)er, 1S(;S, join- 
ing the Class of '"^0, with which he was graduated. 

In college he joined the Al])ha Delta Phi fraternity, the 
Al])ha Xn literary society and was a meniher of the Cni\er- 
sity Cd'e Cluh. \\'a< a S])eaker of the first v'^ophomore exhil)i- 
tion, at the Junioi- exhihition and at commencement exercises. 
He was one of the editfirs of the Uni\'ersity Chronicle. After 
graduation he entered at once U])on the profession of journal- 
ism, joining ihe cit}' staff of the T)etroit Post. During the 
winter of lSTO-71, he had charge of the telegrajiTi desk of the 



Depart.mext of Literature, Science and Arts 103 

Detroit Tril)une. Xii;lit work disagreeing' with his health he 
quit journahsni for a time and read law at Ann Arbor from 
February '71 to June '71. when he went to Kalamazoo to do 
editorial work on the Daily Telegraph and then on the Jack- 
son Citizen. In 1872 he resumed work on the Detroit Tri- 
bune for six months, goings to Washington in December '72, as 
correspondent of that and other papers during the session of 
Congress. Returned to Michigan latter ])art oi March. 1872, 
and remained untd Class reunion in June. lie then started 
on a trip to Europe. He and Lovell of '70, traveled together 
through Scotland, England, Belgium. Cermany. France. Italy 
and Austria. Th-y met Darrow of '70 in Paris. Mr. Flem- 
ing returned to Washington in the fall of 187 I and became the 
^^^ashing"ton representative successively of the New York 
Journal of Commerce; the New York Commercial Bulletin; 
the Detroit Free Press (from 1875 to 1885); the St. Louis 
Republic (from 1881 to 1885) ; the BufTalo Courier from 1870 
to 1885; the Detroit Freee Press, from '75 to '85; living in 
"Bachelor's Hall" with "The Judge." 

From Ttuie 1, 1885, to the Pan American Exposition period 
he was the editor of the Buffalo Courier. In 1899 he acted 
as secretary to Mayor Diehl of Buffalo in organizing the ex- 
position — enlistment of citizens in the organization, securing 
legislation at Albany and Washington, handling preliminary 
details and so on. After incorporation, became secretary of 
the Pan-American Exposition company, continued to be secre- 
t-^ry through the whole period of construction, operation and 
winding up of the exposition, several years of unceasing ac- 
tivitv and whirl. After the exposition episode, returned in 
1906 to editorial work on the Courier, and is there at the time 
this is printed. Was present at the 50th anniversary of grad- 
uition. 



J()4 Class of 'TC, r.\iVKi{siTV of .Miciucax 

Mr. b'lcniin^ sa\s in one of his letters with reference to his 
iiiahiHt\' ti) he present at our rennion in I'.MC 

"I am j;reatl\- (hsappi >inte(l. I liad l)een lookini;' forward 
with eai;er and pleasurahle thonj^hts to the coniini; rennion ot 
"UK lio])in!L;' to see \oii all and to li\e over a^ain with you those 
fine, fruitful college da\'s ; to surrender myself again to the 
charm and exhilaration of that deli^dit ful, undefinahle some- 
thing called colK'gc s])irit — something that those who have 
once known can ne\'er forget — something tliat those who have 
not known can ne\er fully understand. I had ]i()])ed to enjoy 
again with \()u all that choicest ])ro<luct of college spirit, class 
comradeshij) — something that is unattainahle anywhere else 
in the wide and wonderful world. 1 had hojjed to see again 
the old cam])us — to note how the trees look as they grow old 
with the rest of us; to renew ac(piaintance with the old huild- 
ings if an\- of them are left ; to look at the streets of the town 
and the hills and the rixer ; to search for old landnuirks and, — 
l)ut T must not go ori this way: 1 may he taken iov a senti- 
mentalist, and sentimentalists are tal)ooed tliese pulsing 
Roosevcltian days. I could not refrain, however, from throw^- 
ing" out certain kinds of feelings that may lead you. too. to 
feel that T shall he with you in sj)irit at your gathering." 

MORRIS BISHOP FOSTER. B. S. 
Born in Keelerville, Van Buren Co., Mich., January 15, 1843. 
Died at Rector Township, Renville Co., Minn., Feb. 10, 1921. 

A sketch of his early life ap])ears in our former class book- 
issued in 1903. 

Mr. Foster conhned his declining years to the activities of 
a farmer's life in Renxdlle Count^■, .Minnesota, hut had been 



T)KI'AI{T.Mi:.N"r OF l-l'l KKATIKK. S( 'I i:X( "K AX1» A KTS 10,' 

associated with llic progressive element of the coimminity in 
\vhicli lie lived. lie had not been situated so that he could 
join us in nuv Class reunions much to his regret. Am in- 
formed that he was for some years superintendent of schools 
at Olencoe. in l!)l(i he was living on a farm in Renville 
county. 

Morris liisliop Foster was born at Hartford, Michigan, Jan- 
uary 1."), l.Sd;!, son of Ira and Caroline llisho]) Foster, when 
that was the frontier country, lie s]).nl his early _\ears help- 
ing to clear up the farm and going to district school winters. 

The Civil War broke out when he was IT years of age and 
he was among the lirst to \-olunteer. When the ])eriod of his 
first enlistment expired he re-enlisted for the duration of the 
war. lie served in Crant's Ri\er Cam])aign in Company 1), 
(i(ith Illinois X'olunteers, taking ])art in the engagements at 
Fort Donaldson. vShiloh. Corinth and other ])laces, and was 
with Sherman's forces in that memorable march from Atlanta 
to the sea. During i)art of his army service he was attachecl 
to the general staff and carried dis])atches for llrigadier Cen- 
eral Dodge. This he looked back u])on as the most ])erilous 
of his arniv experiences, though at the battle of Shiloh but 
one out of five of his com]:)any responded to roll call the next 
morning. 

At the conclusion of the war he returned to school. |)re])ared 
himself for college and entered the University of Michigan, 
graduating with the class of '70. He afterward taught at 
F)enton Harbor and Saginaw, Michigan, and then came west to 
Minnesota where he was su]>erintendent of schools at Wa- 
l:)asha. While there, in 1S74. he filed on a homestead in that 
unexplored region which later became Ffector Township, Ren- 
ville County. Here he built the first frame house in the town- 
ship. From Waba.sha he cam- 1o Clencoe as superintendent 



lOd Class of 70, University of Michigan 

of schools, improving and breaking" up his homestead during 
vacations. In 18T8 he quit teaching and devoted himself en- 
titrely to farming". He made his home on the old homestead 
with the exception of a few years of residence in 1 lector until 
he died. 

His army experience, extending over a period of four years 
of the most impressionable part of his life, left a lasting in- 
fluence. He always retained the bearing and habits of a sol- 
dier. 

Born in a pioneer country and coming again to a pioneer 
country as a young man, he became so imbued with the pio- 
neer spirit that he remained a pioneer and was ever eager to 
be among the first in a new field of endeavor. His delight 
was in opening the way and in the accomplishment of new 
undertakings rather than in following the beaten paths and 
gaining advantages for himself. Between his TOth and 76th 
years he laid several hundred rods of tile drain on his farm, 
unassisted, though he had never seen tiling done until he 
had reached three score and ten. He derived a great deal 
of satisfaction in demonstrating that he had added a new ac- 
complishment to his list. He was an enthusiastic and tireless 
worker whose spirit never flagged ; standing courageousl}', 
face to the front and asking no quarter. A considerable o[ 
an idealist, a Puritan in spirit, his private life w'as self-deny- 
ing and guided by the highest motives. With others he was 
honest, frank and sincere, and to his family he displayed a 
solicitous devotion. His whole life was a most active one. 

Although asiduously ])ursuing his own business, he took an 
active interest in all public matters and kept abreast with the 
times. Despite his years he did not become an old man but 
was still an eager and enthusiastic jiarticipant in all the a^'airs 
of life to the dav of his last illness. 



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A\ liile teaching" at Saginaw, Mich., he was married to Cath- 
erine Louise Folvvell, who reniaained his devoted helper until 
December, 1912, when she was called to the Great Beyond. 
Although her death was the saddest of blows, he bore up un- 
der it with his characteristic fortitude. 

He is survived by four children: Dr. Bainbridge Foster 
of Spring Valley, Minnesota; Mrs. E. C. Gaines and Rol)crt 
AT. F^oster of ButTalo Fake, and Thomas F Foster, who reside 
on the farm, and l)y two sisters, Mrs. Olivia Newton of Muske- 
gon, INFch., and Miss Josephine Foster of FTartford. Mich. 

GEORGE JAY FRENCH, A. B. 
Born near Tekonsha, Mich., January 31, 1847. 

Address: Homer, Mich. 

Classmate French wrote December 22, 1030: 

"I have neglected to send you any of my history for the 
good reason that T have not made any that I consider worth 
recording. Since m) tri]^ to Xew York, Philadelphia, Wash- 
ington and Pittsburg in September, 101 T, I have not traveled 
much. Nineteen lumdred twelve was the last time I saw the 
city of Chicago and I have not seen Milwaukee since 187 4. I 
have been in Detroit, Grand Ra])ids. Lansing, Saginaw, liattle 
Creek and Kalamazoo several times in the last 50 years. 

Here is hoping that we all may meet again without the loss 
of one in that brighter world beyond the sky. 

I remain vour friend and classmate, 

GEO. J. FRENCH. 

He says further : 

I attended the commencement exercises at Ann Arbor in 
lune, 1017. My brother Henry N. French of the class of '67 
and H. P. Chm-chill of the same class were there at that time 



108 Class of '70, University of Michigan 

to celebrate their 50th anniversary. I had a very pleasant 
time, altho I did not meet any of 'TO except Beman and Kint- 
ner. In 18T4, four of us from Homer took a tri]) from 
Detroit to Chicago by boat via Lakes Huron and Michigan, 
stopping" at Mackinac, Charlevoix and Milwaukee. Two of 
us went on as far as Janesville, Madison and Devils Lake near 
Baraboo, where we saw much grand and beautiful scenery. 
I think it would be well for us who now constitute what is 
left of Class of L'^TO to meet at A. A. once a year if possible. 
I shall endeavor to be there next June and I hope to meet 
many of the old familiar faces at that time. 

Yours, 

GEO. J. FRENCH. 

Homer, Mich., April 14, 1021. 
Dear Carter: 

The sad announcement of the death of my old chum, ^^' hit- 
man, struck me with cpiite a shock. Whitman was my room- 
mate for nearly 4 years at A. A., and I studied with him 
sometimes in Judge Joslin's pagoda, situated in his capacious 
grounds at Ypsilanti, on the border of the banks of the Hu- 
ron. We slept together nearly 4 years, all the time, except 5 
weeks I roomed with a medical student at Jones' place. Said 
Jones was a retired Baptist preacher, who kept boarders jusl 
across from the campus, northeast. He was the father of our 
classmate Jones. 

AMiitman and I were sick a day or two in senior year while 
living" at Banister's, on State street. He employed Dr. Sager 
and I employed Dr. Palmer, both of the medical faculty. We 
moved our bed out from the wall, and each of us had a chair 
or stand near, where we could readily reach our medicine. 
Fortunately we recovered promptly from the malady which 



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took possession of us. I don't remember what was the mat- 
ter with us, but I know he dropped down suddenly, some- 
what like a person fainting". He has visited me once since 
graduation, but I never went to see him. The last time I saw 
him, I think, was in 1915, at Ann Arbor. He was well built 
physically. lie was quite an athlete. He had a cough while 
at Ann Arbor, and was what we used to call of a consumptive 
build, but he was generally in the enjoyment of good health 
as far as I know. He roomed with Matthews a few weeks 
wdiile at Jones' place, l)ut for some reason they could not har- 
monize, and he solicited me as a chum and we stuck together 
until graduation without any serious disagreement. 

Yours, etc., 

GEO. J. FRENCH. 

During" the past ;> or 4 months 1 have l)een writing" a his- 
tory of the earlier events of this locality, which have appeared 
in the Homer Index, and seem to be of considerable interest 
to readers of that ])ai)er. G. J. F. 

CHARLES P. GILBERT, C. E., M. E. 

Born at Bridgeport, Conn., March 16, 1846. — Died at Los 
Gatos, Cal., October 1, 1917. 

Class Letter. 

Sand EJeach, ^lich., May 16, 1815. 

To the Classmates of '70. Greeting: 

Having" long since abandoned the hope of seeing the long 
looked for Class budget, my joy on receiving" it was the greater 
in consequence. The letter has taken an overland trip to the 
Sault and back again in its pursuit of me. its next claimant 
and to that trip must be charged the soaked and streaked ap- 



110 Class of '70, Uxiversity of Miciiigan 

pearance which it now presents. I notice that it has shpped 
my brother "Rel)," Finley, and deem it but fair that it should 
go back to him l)efore going down the list. I send it to him 
with the remark "Be virtuous and you will be happy." Hop- 
ing that each member of our glorious old class will be as 
much warmed in Class feeling as I have been 1 start it again 
on its mission of friendship adding according to program my 
own history. 

I was married in Chicago on the 22nd of May, 1873, and am 
now the father of a two-year-old daughter. The history of my 
wanderings is as follows: I spent the summer of 'TO, looking 
around for work, making Meyendorif a visit down in Illinois, 
and finally accepted a situation as draughtsman in the office 
of M., K. & T. R. R. at Sedalia, Mo. After a few months of 
labor and- associations by no means agreeable, I joined Meyen- 
dorff on the Wabash river where a bridge was in course of 
erection by the St. L. t^ S. E. Ry. Co. A few months of 
pleasant work and companionshi]) was followed by an inglor- 
ious retreat from that delightful region which Davock has 
well described, before an attack of ague (bona fide shakes 
twice a day), T went to Chicago, and while recruiting was 
irregularly employed reporting and writing for the R. R. Gaz- 
ette, visiting several of the prominent bridges in the west for 
that purpose, \\diilc thus engaged I receix'ed an appointment 
as assistant upon the government work at Sault Ste. Marie, 
Mich., which was then as now under the local charge of 
Noble. After 3^ years of both winter and summer work in 
that decidedly cool region T was ordered to the Harbor of Re- 
fuge building at Sand Beach, ^Tich., and i)lace(l in local charge 
of the work, which position T still hold. T have secured for 
Perry a position with me for the present season, and we have 
enioved together the arrival of the Class letter. Kngineers 



DEPARTMEXT of T.ITKKATrKE, SciKXCE AND AUTS 111 

are not expected to live among' civilized people, therefore I 
have no right to complain that my life is, and must be, passed 
away from social privileges, and am satisfied that I can be 
contented and happy whenever I can have a comfortable home 
with my family and envy no bachelor member of 'TO, who may 
be fortunate enough to be surrounded by a large circle of 
friends and acc|uaintances. 

Sincerely Yours. 

C. P. GILBERT. 

After residing for a time at Berkeley, Cal., Gill)ert made his 
permanent home at Los Gatos. Cal.. where he occasionally 
saw John A. Baldwin. He wrote from there in June. 1!)1(), 
saying" that he much regretted that it would be impracticable 
for him to attem])t to join us at our reunion that month, and 
that he doubted whether he would ever undertake to cross the 
continent again. He said: "FMease exj^ress to Mr. and Mrs. 
Beman my thanks for their kind invitation and to the class- 
mates who attend, my cordial regards. I have the pleasure 
here of meeting Baldwin occasionally." 

His oldest daughter Jennie, married L. H. Earle. who re- 
sides in Los Gatos. as do his widow and daughter Marv. 

JUDGE FRANK GUNNISON, LL. B. 

Born at Erie, Penn., Feb. 2, 1848. — Died at Erie, Penn., April 

23, 1919. 

Honorable Frank Gunnison. President Judge of the courts 
of Erie county, Pa., from January 1, 1887. to January 1, 189T, 
died on April S-'lrd, 19D. in the seventy-first year (~if his age. 

His father was one of the earlier leaders of the Bar of Erie. 
Judge Gunnison was born into the higher circle of the ])ro- 
fession, and was an heir to its l)est traditions. 



112 Class of 70, UniveRkSity of Michigan 

He received his training in the Erie Academy, the Univer- 
sity of Michigan, and the Harvard Law School. Upon his ad- 
mission to the Bar, he began a busy professional career which 
continued almost to the hour of his death. His career as a 
lawyer and a judge covered fifty years of continuous work. 

His well-trained mind and strong common sense cjuickly 
grasped the essential facts of apparently complicated matters, 
and accurately applied the rules of law, reaching decisions 
which were seldom overturned. He commanded the respect 
of the public and the courts, not only because of the excellence 
of his work, but because of his high standards of conduct, his 
refinement of character, his charming personality, and his 
spirit of helpfulness to all with whom he came in contact. 
He had an ever present sense of humor which the most formal 
occasion could not suppress, and which lightened the labors 
of his associates and of every tribunal over which he presided 
or before wdiich he appeared. 

But few of the associates of his youth now survive him, so 
rapidly does the personnel of the Bar change with the passing 
of the years ; but a generation of practitioners who came to the 
Bar while he was ujion the Bench and since, remember with 
gratitude his kindne;^s and assistance in their studies for ad- 
mission and in their professional efiforts. 

He was a wise and safe counsellor ; no lawyer was ever 
truer to the interests of his clients. He combined unusual 
business judgment and experience with profound knowdedge 
of the law. He was not a lover of litigation and did not 
hasten to advise it ; but when he felt that his client's rights 
had been violated, he seldom ceased his efforts to obtain re- 
dress until after the decision of the Court of last resort. 

He was interested in i)ublic affairs, in the problems of so- 
cietv and government; a student of legislation and of history; 



Department of Litekature, Science and Arts 113 

and his wide reading was snpplemented l:)y extensive travel 
in his own country and in foreign lands. He was one of the 
most loyal of Americans ; a large part of his time was given 
freely to the activities of the war. even when his health was 
such as to make such etTorts inadvisable ; and the last hours 
which he silent at his office before his fatal illness overtook 
him were devoted to this work. 

OTIS ERASTUS HAVEN, A. M., M. D. 

Born at Maiden, Mass., July 27, 1849. Died at Evanston, 
Ills., February 3, 1888. 

Class Letter. 

Evanston. 111., Nov. 20, 1875. 

Ever Dear Classmates: 

The bonds of 'TO are still dear to me and now after five 
years of busy life since we parted upon graduation day seem 
dearer than ever before. I am an old pedagogue. /\m teach- 
ing now and should not wonder if I always followed this 
work. Immediately after graduating I went into the large 
furniture house of A. H. Andrews & Co., in Chicago, as cor- 
responding clerk. Remained there six months and then left, 
heartily disgusted with ni}- experience in business life. Then 
went to McGregor, la., where I remained two years and a 
third as principal of the school. Imagine your numble ser- 
vant entering upon the duties of a principal over a school hav- 
ing twelve teachers! Did I tremble? I'll never forget my 
experience in opening the high school at morning exercises 
that first Monday morning. W^ell. anyway, with all the trials 
and tribulations I succeeded and so well that I concluded to 
share the trials as well as the pleasure with a better half. So 
on August 2nd, 1871, Miss Alice L. Sutherland and myself 



114 Class of 70, Umveusity of Michigan 

were united in the bonds of matrimony. After remaining in 
McGregor two years, having received an appointment as sup- 
erintendent of schools in this place I accepted, and here we 
are in one of the most pleasant places in Illinois, 1^ miles from 
Chicago, and the seat of the Northwestern University. Here 
we expect to remain. Our little girl three years old calls me 
papa "Otis" Evasticus and other affectionate appellations. 
The wife calls me "hub" and we three, wife, Gracie and my- 
self are about as happy as happy can be. We pity all bachelor 
members of '70. May their numbers continually grow less! 
I frequently meet members of 'TO, and sincerely desire that 
if any of our Classmates ever pass this way they may make 
their home with 

Your Brother in '70, 

O. E. HAVEN. 

JAMES ALFRED HAYWARD, C. E. 

Born at Dublin, Cheshire Co., N. H., September 12, 1849. 
Drowned in Gulf of Mexico, ofT the Texas Coast, Aug. 12, 1880. 

Galveston, Texas. Nov. 13, 187G. 

Fellow Classmates: 

The Class letter reached me in New Orleans a few days 
ago on the eve of my departure for this place, and I take this, 
my first opportunity, to add to its volume. It is useless for 
me to try to express in words my feelings as I carefully read 
the history and the experiences of my beloved Classmates. 
I will therefore briefly add my autobiography. Since Class 
Day of 1870 my life has been an eventful one. To attempt a 
full history would be to write a small volume. I have seen 
both prosperity and adversity in its various ups and downs. 
I have worked as a day laborer and positions commanding 



Departmp^xt of Literature^ {Science and Arts 115 

good salaries. I have enjoyed a season of niost perfect happi- 
ness, and passed through one of the severest trials that ever 
mortal man can be called upon to entlure. Briefly : Soon after 
Class Day 'TO. I went to Kansas where I soon secured work 
as assistant on the St. L. L. & D. R. R. My eye sight failing 
I was compelled to abandon my situation. I then secured 
work on the L. L. & G. R. R., first as wiper in the engine 
house, then as fireman on a locomotive. In the spring of 'Tl 
left that road and endeavored to amass a fortune by j^ublish- 
ing maps. Fortune smiled and frowned upon me in this en- 
terprise until her frowns, cond)ined with a protracted illness 
compelled me in the summer of '72 to abandon that business. 
I then went to Winona. Minn., and secured a position as fire- 
man on a locomotive on the \\\ & St. P. R. R. I remained 
there three months, when having entirely recovered my 
health I accepted a situation as draughtsman and deputy 
county surveyor in La Crosse, W'is. I remained there as 
long as the work lasted and during the winter proceeded to 
Milwaukee, Wis., Chicago. 111., and finally Rock Island, 111., in 
search of work. Failing to secure iti I embarked in the map 
business again and joined Willits and Waters as silent part- 
ner in publishing maps of Rock Island and Moline, 111., and 
Davenport. la. Here fortune frowned again and I had but 
little to show' for that winter's work when in July '73, I de- 
parted to see my prospective wife in Kalamazoo, Alich. While 
on this visit fortune smiled, for I learned through Bird of a 
chance to earn some money in Texas and received through 
Ripley an appointment as draughtsman on a government sur- 
vey then in his charge. Afterwards through Mr. Ripley's in- 
fluence I received an appointment as Asst. U. S. Engineer, 
which I retained until March '75. a portion of the time having 
charge of a surveying party, and a part of the time stationed 



11<> Class of 70, Umveksity of Michigan 

at the ir-Duth of the Mississippi river to assist on important 
work there. July 26, "73, previous to my going South, I mar- 
ried Miss Ida Upjohn of Kalamazoo, Mich., formerly of Ann 
Arbor and well known to many of my Classmates. The win- 
ter of '74-T5 she passed with me in New Orleans and in March 
'75, I returned with her to Michigan. For a few months I 
remained in idleness, ( but in the fall of '75. accepted an offer 
from Bird and Mickle of Jackson and joined them on a small 
salary in the ma]) business. I remained with them until 
March '76. It was then that I passed the happiest hours of 
my life and enjoyed for a brief period those blessings which 
make life so dear to us all. Anxiously I looked forward to 
the time when nothing should be wanting to make my happi- 
ness complete, but alas! On the 26th of April '76, my wife 
gave birth to a dead child and followed it in a few hours to 
that life we know not of. And now I am left to plod alone 
this weary world of woe, doubly lonesome in the loss of her 
I loved so dearly. 

The north becoming distasteful to me I returned last June 
to New Orleans. For a while I amused myself in publishing 
in the "Engineering News" and "Chicago Times" attacks up- 
on Capt. Jas. B. Ead's Jettie Works at South Pass, Mississippi 
river. * * * j ii^d a situation as Asst. U. S. engineer offered 
me there, but refused to take it. Early last month I received 
an appointment as draughtsman in the U. S. Engineers' office 
in New Orleans, and a few days ago an appointment as U. S. 
Asst. Engineer, and given charge of an important survey in 
Galveston Bay. I have decided to make New Orleans my fu- 
ture home. I will now pass the Class letter over to Ripley 
who will. I trust, say his say. After which it will be forwarded 
as suggested by Noble. 



Department of Literatuiu:, ScIE^X'E and Arts 117 

Hoping" prosperity and happiness will be the lot of all my 
beloved classmates, 

I am in 'TO forever yours, 

J. A. HAYWARD. 

JOHN COLLINS ROWLAND, M. S. 
Born in Mundy, Genesee Co., Mich., September 27, 1849. 

Address: lOG South Brook Court, Washington, D. C. 

Mr. Rowland has devoted much of his time for the last 20 
years to law matters arising in the Land Department in Wash- 
ington. About 1907' he had the very great misfortune of 
breaking a leg. He later had a fall and broke a rib which ag- 
gravated his difficulty. He manages to get about, however, 
by the aid of a crutch and a cane. He attended our reunion 
in June last and was cheerful and happy. The boys were de- 
lighted to see him once more. He has the sympathy and best 
wishes of all his classmates in his misfortune. 

FRANK HOWARD HOWE, A. B., LL. B. 

Born at Green Bay, Wis., May 10, 1850. — Died in New York 
City, December 29, 1897. 

Class Letter. 

Washington, D. C, Dec. 2 , 1876. 

To my former Classmates of 1870 : 

The Class letter which I find was started some five years 
ago reached me for the first time the other day through the 
kindness of Messrs. Thayer and Adams. I make haste to add 
my contribution to those that have gone before. My life has 
passed very pleasantly and rapidly for the past six years. I 



118 Class of 70, University uf AIiciiigan 

have spent most of it in the "City of magnificant distances" 
where I propose making my future home. In the summer of 
1872 I was admitted to the bar of the vSupreme Court of the 
D. C. as a graduate of the CoUim1)ia Law College. And since 
the summer of 187.'? I have been practicing my profession. 
My history, I think, can be briefly summed up in those two or 
three sentences. As one of those who has written before me 
has said the life of a lawyer is exceedingly monotonous. One 
must look for interesting passages and thrilling adventures 
rather in the lives of the Engineers of the Class. I think 
MeyendorfT, for instance might be able to add a very read- 
able chapter to the Class history by narrating the story of his 
life on the Montana plains and in the California mountains. 
Being but a plain attorney myself. I can but regret my in- 
ability to say anything very interesting or amusing and to 
subscribe myself with the-best wishes for you all. 

V^ery sincerely yours, 

F. H. HOWE. 

WASHINGTON HYDE, Ph. B.. LL. B. 
Born at Farmington, O., May 7, 1847. 

Address: Warren, O. 

]\Ir. Hyde has continued in the active and successful prac- 
tice of law at \\'arren, ( )., since 1!)().'5. He attended the semi- 
centennial reunion last June. He is President, Treasurer and 
Attorney of the Warren & Xiles Telephone Company, which 
has grown to be a corporation of more than one-half million 
assets and nearly G,000 telephones, and is President and 
Treasurer of The King Furniture Manufacturing Company of 
Warren, O., of which he is a large owner; and President of 
The A\"arren Rubber Company, a wholesale jobbing house 



Department of Literattre. Science and Arts 119 

with $;'.(K),0()0 assets. Mr. Hycle has recently Ijeen elected 
President of the Tninihull County liar Association of Trum- 
bull County, Ohio. 

His youngest son. Clarence, who was with the American 
army in the great war was killed on "Flanders Field" Octo- 
ber 31, 1918. He has five children and eight grand children 
living. His second son, Edward, was admitted to the (Jhio 
Bar last December and is now engaged with him in the ])rac- 
tice of law at Warren, under the firm name of Hyde & llvde. 

Mr. Hyde's health was never better, physically or mentally. 
He is very busy caring for his large business interests and 
law practice. 

FRANCIS WAYLAND JONES, A. M., LL. B. 

Born at Hamburg, Washtenaw Co., Mich., August 23, 1849. 
Died at Los Angeles, Cal., January 8th, 1905. 

Class Letter. 

Chicago, 111., June 16, 18TT. 

In adding my postscript to 'TO's volume I am reminded by 
its size that "personals" only are acceptal^le ; therefore : The 
first year after v^'e separated I spent at "Alma Plater" pur- 
suing a post graduate course in Latin and Greek and receiving 
M. A. degree on examination, at the same time taking a course 
of lectures in the law department. In September '71, I was 
called to take charge of Mathematics in Wayland Seminary,. 
Beaver Dam, AA'^isconsin. where I had prepared for college. 

The fall and winter of '73 I spent at Climax, ^Michigan in 
charge of the school at that place, remaining there till Feb- 
ruary, 'To, when I moved to \Vashing;ton, D. C. for the pur- 
pose of completing my law studies, at the same time receiving 



120 Class of 70, University of Michigan 

an appointment in the Treasury Department on examination 
under the Civil Service rules, ranking eighth in a class of about 
525. 

In May, 'T4. I graduated from the law school of the Nation- 
al University, was admitted to the bar of the District of Colum- 
bia and immediately resigned my position in the Department 
and removed to Chicago, where I have since been engaged in 
the practice of the law. 

To the world at large my matrimonial prospects remain in 
statu quo, but to the boys of '70, I will admit a contract (not 
of record) which, when carried out, will, I trust, enable me 
to extend a cordial invitation to all of '70 to come and see us 
as they pass through this great metropolis. 

In the meantime dire vengeance on the man who dares to 
pass through Chicago without calling at 84 Washington street, 
room 3. 

Am well pleased to have heard from so many of the boys 
of '70 and of their prosperity and promising to attend to Malt- 
man's invocation in regard to our reunion, 

I remain as ever in '70, 

F. W. JONES. 

Mr. Jones died at Los Angeles, Cal., January 8, 1905, and 
was thus spoken of by the Press at that place : 

Francis W. Jones, assistant secretary of the Los Angeles 
Title. Insurance and Trust Company, died early yesterday 
morning after a brief illness. The immediate cause of his 
death was hemorrhage of the brain, superinduced by overwork. 

Mr. Jones was well known among the business fraternity of 
this city, having been connected with a number of enterprises 
for the past ten years. 

He was a graduate of the University of Michigan and also 
of the Columbia College of Law at Washington, D. C, where. 



Department of Litbrattre. Science and Arts 121 

as a young man, he was admitted to the bar. After practicing 
for a number of years in the Capital City, he was named by 
President Garfield to a responsible position in the National 
Treasury where he served through the Garfield and Arthur 
administrations. About ten years ago he came to Los Angeles 
and has been interested in public atTairs in this city ever since. 

Mr. Jones was fifty-five years of age and leaves beside his 
widow, three daughters, Elizabeth. Ethel and Marie. His 
death occurred at the family residence at 12 :30 Sunday morn- 
ing. 

Though pressed with many business cares, Mr. Jones gave 
a generous part of his time to church work. He was an hon- 
ored member of the Temple Baptist Church and was a trustee 
of the church at the time of his death. 

REV. EUGENE KETCHUM, B. S. 

Born at Pulaski, Hancock Co., 111., April 13, 1840.— Died at 
Waverly, Iowa, November 16th, 1906. 

Our Classmate Ketchum had quite a remarkable life, con- 
sidering that he was practically blind from his 15th year until 
he was about twenty-four years of age. He deserved great 
praise for accomplishing what he did. The following letter 
from his daughter gives the details concerning the close of his 
active life. 

Riceville. Iowa. June 22nd, 190T. 
Dear Mr. Carter: 

Mamma receieved your very kind letter some time ago and 
has asked me to fulfill your request concerning papa's last 
illness. 

Our home was in Waverly from the summer of 1904 until 
November last. Papa's health had failed rapidly during the 



122 Class ur 'TO, Uxi vek.sity of .Michigan 

past summer but he was not coufined to liis Ijed until about 
November 2nd, when he was suddenly attacked with typhoid. 
During the followino- three weeks he was delirious most of the 
time. The afternoon before his death, he was conscious a 
few hours although almost too weak to speak. 

All the children were honie during the last week except 
Vesta, the eldest, who had left last July for I'asadena. Cal., to 
take up nursing. He wa- so low from the very first that the 
doctors thought she ciuld not get home in time. 

He passed away without any suffering on the morning of 
the 11 th. A short ser\'ice was held at the house on Sunday 
morning, and in the afternoon the family left for Riceville 
where the public funeral was held on Monday. The remains 
were buried in the local cemetery. 

Since then mamma and Jennie have stayed with Kthel in 
Riceville and Alice, who taught seventh grade in A\'averly, 
remained there together with Floyd, who attended the High 
School. 

Hoping this may prove to be wdiat yi:)u desired T beg to 
remain. 

Yours sincerely, 

EDITH L. KETCHUM. 

CHARLES J. KINTNER, C. E. 
Bom in Town of Boone, Harrison Co., Ind., April 19, 1848. 

Address: o09 X. Ingalls St.. Ann Arbor, Mich. 

After serving many years in the j)atent office at Washington 
as an expert in the field of electricity, Mr. Kintner removed to 
New York City and opened an office and took up the practice 
of a patent lawyer, engaging in controversies over the use of 
electricity in connection with patents, tie also invented and 



Department of LITElRATURE^, Science and Arts 123 

took out patents in his own name for various applications of 
electricity. Was an expert in patent causes. He was a great 
student and applied himself ver}^ closely, in fact too closely 
for his own good health. His broken health, doubtless, re- 
sults from too strenuous an application to his life work in his 
profession. Mr. Kintner retired from active work some time 
ago and returned with Mrs. Kintner to their Ann Arbor home. 
It is great consolation to the Class to know that our dear 
"Charlie Kintner" is receiving every care possible from a de- 
voted wife. We sincerely regretted that his ill-health did not 
permit of their attendance at our semi-centennial banquet last 
June. 

JUDGE OWEN EDGAR LE FEVRE, Ph. B. 

Born in the Town of Little York, O., August 6, 1848. — Died 
at Denver, Colorado, March 28, 1921. 

To the Members of My Class, Thirty-three in Xumber, Greet- 
ings: 

After the lapse of these fifty years, I again am in your 
midst, at least in spirit. To recall the intervening years since 
June of 'TO, is to review my life almost in its entirety, only 
faintly recalling the days which I had passed before that time, 
and they were days of unalloyed happiness. 

But in June, 18T0, my days of work actually began and were 
continued uninterruptedly until I quit the Bench in 1902, to 
take an enforced vacation, which has been prolonged until this 
date. Whe.n I retired from the Bench I was past 5'3 years 
of age, and not desiring to resume the practice of the law, I 
longed to see more of other countries and to give more time 
to travel, and the study of art. I had previously, on two oc- 
casions, been in England. France, Holland and Italy. Whether 



124 Class of '7(K Fxiversity of ^riniTGAN 

I had good and sufficient reasons for that quitting' I am un- 
able to say — but quit 1 (hd. While abroad I lived in Berlin, 
Florence, Oxford, England and Paris, two or more years in 
each city; engaged in the study of art, history and the various 
social conditions there confronting us. My life while there 
was a busy one and a happy one until it was brought to an 
end by the world's war, in the closing days of lOlo, before 
open hostilities began in 1914. At sundry times I returned 
to America, and in the meantime visited diiTerent parts of my 
own country as well as Egypt, the Holy Land, India and the 
far East, where I met our genial and able friend Judge Thayer, 
in China. 

So you will understand that my years, since I became one of 
the world's daily workers in 1870, have almost been contin- 
uous, either at WMirk or play, both having l)een rather stren- 
uous. Thirty years in the law, and twenty years in travel. 

The time passed in Oxford was perhaps the most delight- 
ful, because I was attending the University, and had with me 
as classmates my wife, who w^as a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan 
College, and my daughter, who had been graduated from Bryn 
Mawr College, in 1005, and who had been with me since that 
time, pursuing her musical work in the aforementioned 
cities up to 1912. when she became Mrs. Ikdlamy. 

The days spent in Xorway and Sweden were delightful. 
The time on the Nile and in Egypt was so nc^vel that I would 
gladly pass it again ; while the trip through the Holy Land 
made more sacred the spots visited by our Savior. The visit 
to Lidia and seeing its hordes of the ])Oor, rejoiced me to leave 
it. But the visit to Japan refreshed us, because of the uni- 
versal, kindly, attributes of its people ; and the travel and a 
somewhat prolonged stay in Russia impressed me with the 
natural w'calth of that now impoverished land. 



Department of LiTERATrRE, Science and Arts 125 

I have accomplished nothing since I retired worthy of pub- 
lic notice. In closing I wish only to make mention of some- 
thing of rather painful interest to me, and it is this. In Feb- 
ruary, 1906, I had a stroke of paralysis which has partially in- 
capacitated me from active life, and this will account for my 
absence from Ann Arbor at the times of our class reunions. 
I am not so enfeebled that I cannot and do not send my love 
to each and every member of the Class of 'TO now living. 

Your Classmate, 

OWEN E. LE FEVRE. 

The Denver Post of March 3S, 1921, contained ihe follow- 
ing: 

Colorado and the west are poorer today, because, through 
the death of Owen E. Le Fevre, which occurred at his home, 
1311 York street, at -i o'clock Monday morning, a splendid 
imagination, unwavering and undaunted courage as applied 
to Colorado, are no more. 

Born in the town of Little York, Ohio, Aug. 6, 1848, Owen 
E. Ee Fevre was one of the young easterners who came west 
with the determination of making it richer and better for his 
coming, and through persistent efifort that hope was fulfilled 
through great mining and agricultural efforts, in his profes- 
sion of the law, as public official and in the cultural movements 
of the commtmity. 

As a pupil in the district schools of Ohio and later in the 
preparatory departiuent of Antioch college, Owen E. Le Fevre 
glimpsed the vision of what an American citizen should be. 

For three years he had watched the struggle between north 
and south and, although but 16 years old, he made up his mind 
to have a hand in settling the great issue involving the integ- 



llM> Class of 70, r.\ivLi:siTV or .Michigan 

rity of the union. Leaving' his classroom, he enlisted with the 
iTjIth ( )h:o volunteers and shared their fortunes until luusttr- 
ed out of the service. 

Returning home, he completed preparations for the Univer- 
sity of Michigan, and entering the junior class of that institu- 
tion he graduated with honors in J^ine, ISTO. 

Like many another of America's distinguished lawyers 
( )wen E. Le I'evre taught school to pay his living expenses 
while studying law and his first associations in this profes- 
sion were John A. AIcAhdion and George ^^^ Houck of Day- 
ton. 

Pmt the west — the real west — called to the young patriot 
and, hax'ing married Aliss Kva French on the day she grad- 
uated from the \\'eslyan university, he began his journey west- 
ward, with his lo\'ely bride, toward opportunity for construc- 
ttive service and fortune. 

In June, 1ST;>, the Owen E. Le Fevre arrived in Denver and 
selected the Highlands as the scene of their home. Almost 
immediately the community realized the presence of a vitaliz- 
ing force, not alone through the energetic mentality of Mr. 
Le Fevre but in the sincere cuUtn-e and forward looking quali- 
ties of his wife. 

The Le Fevre's home, remote as it seemed from the city's 
activities, became a center of a charming social and intellect- 
ual life, and there many of the plans, which later matured into 
beautv spots for Denver and into organizations whereby a 
communitv's humaneness is reckoned, were evolved. 

As a native of Ohio, Owen E. Le Fevre admitted that he 
must take an interest in ]X)litics, and so. in ISTo, he became 
attornev for the Highlands and was re-elected in IS'iG. In 
LS85 he became mayor of the suburban coiumunity. then not 
an integral part of Denver. Having moved into "the city" 



l)ErAKT:MEXT OF LlTKRATrUK. SCIENCE AND AllTS 127 

by 1892, he was elected judge of the county court on the Re- 
publican ticket at a time when F\:)pulists were carrying every- 
thing before them. In l.S!)4. at the expiration of his term as 
county judge, he was elected to the district court. 

But the part which Owen E. Le Fevre played in the de- 
velopment of Colorado's resources proved the imagination and 
vision of the man. 

The fortune left by Owen E. Le Fevre came from the earth. 
With his friend, the late A. E. Reynolds, and Henry Wolcott, 
he went into Creede and risked a fortune in the New York 
Chance mine, which, through its flood of silver, repaid his 
faith a thousand fold. 

Having" accumulated a competence upon which he might 
have retired. Mr. Le Fevre wanted to demonstrate the arid 
land of Colorado might be made to produce crops, and to this 
end he purchased land east of Denver, invested in machinery 
and, by a system of deep tillage, proved his contention and 
achieved one of the splendid show farms of the state. 

But Owen E. Le Fevre was wise enough to realize that 
man must play as well as work, and so with his wife and 
daughter, Frederika, now Mrs. Harry E. Bellamy, he went 
on far journeys, which took him into all civilized countries 
where a sure art sense and deep appreciation for literature 
enabled him to become the possessor of art objects and books 
unequaled in this section of the country. 

Perhaps Owen E. Le Fevre was the interesting man he was 
to his hosts of friends and even to casual acquaintances be- 
cause he was so deeply interested in all that pertained to life 
and living. He was interested in music, in painting, in writ- 
ing, in public speaking, in young men who wanted to get on 
in the world and were faced with the same stark problems of 
existence that he had faced, in the theater and to the splendid 



128 Class of '70, University of Michigan 

war service rendered hy Mrs. Le Fevre and Mrs. Bellamy, he 
gave unstinted sym])athy and endorsement. 

In the early days, when Denver's social life was crystaliz- 
ing" in clubs, Owen K. Le Fevre was an active force in creat- 
ing the Denver and Country clubs and was one of the pic- 
turesque figures in the gentlemen's driving club. For several 
years Mr. I^e Fevre's health had been failing and his death 
was the culmination of many months of suffering'. 

Surviving this estimable citizen are his widow, Mrs. Eva 
French Le Fevre ; his daughter, Mrs. Bellamy, a ranking per- 
sonality in all art mo\-ements, and a granddaugliter. 

Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon at St. 
John's cathedral. 

Our classmate, C. M. Boss, was in Denver on the day of 
Le Fevre's funeral, but he was not aware of our great loss 
until sometime later. 



VINCENT SMITH LOVELL, A. M. 

Born at Elgin, 111., May 2, 1845.— Died at Scranton, Pa., Dec. 

7, 1892. 

Class Letter. 

Elgin. 111., April 16, 1877. 

My Dear Boys : 

Bush, who is now practicing law in Chicago, came out to 
spend Sunday with me so that we might read over the Class 
letter, which came a few days before, together ; and we had a 
grand good time doing it, and recalling old faces and associ- 
ations. 

Bush will deliver the packet to Maltman and Jones, who 



Department of Literature, HIciexce and Arts 129 

are both in Chicago, after whom will come ^Tickle, ami then 
Aloses. who is now professor of history in the 'University of 
California. Berkeley, Cal. The only ones who will then haVe 
failed to rei)ort will be Fioss, Finley, Foster and Ketchum, 
none of whose addresses I know. 

The bundle is getting so bulky that T will only add as briefly 
as possible my biographical contribution : 

A few weeks after graduation in 1HT(», I went to Albany, N. 
Y., where I remained two years with the Albany Argus, one 
of the oldest newspapers in the state, first year as night editor, 
and second year as managing" editor. My health giving out I 
returned home in the summer of 18T2, and remained for about 
a year, when Fleming" and I met at '?0's reunion at Commence- 
ment '73, and thence started for Europe together. We were 
chums for about a year together in the old country, seeing" 
something" in the lueantime of Scotland, England, Belgium, 
Germany and France, Italy and Austria, and of course en- 
joying" ourselves imniensely. Our companion in arms in Paris 
for about two months was Darrow of 'TO. In the summer of 
1874, I left him at Leipzig, along with Dawson of '70, Walters 
of '68, and other fellows, and returned to Elgin. Soon after 
began work as associate editor of Chicago Evening Post, in 
which I was and still am a shareholder and remained till sum- 
mer of 1876, when I again went to Europe, and was married 
in August, 1876, at Hamburg", near the Rhine, in Germany, to 
Eliza A. Hadwen, an English girl, whose accpiaintance I had 
made three years before in Rome. We took a tour through 
the Black Forest and Tyrol, and came to America last autumn 
in season to see something of the exposition in its closing 
days. Am for the present at my old home in Elgin, 111., where 
letters would always reach me, and where '70 is of cour-e 
alwavs welcome. 



130 Class of 'TO, Umvkksity uf Michigan 

There are about >"50 more boys to write, and \vc ought to get 
the letter around surely by '78. and have it at the reunion. 

Yours always, 

V. S. LOVELL. 

JOHN SCOTT MALTMAN, B. S., LL. B. 

Born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1843. Address No. 123 South 
Broadway, Los Angeles, Cal. 

Steamship HoiMbav, February 2'A, 190(3. 
Dear Classmate : 

I desire to report myself in the land of the living. Am now 
on my way westerly to America, where I hope to arrive about 
January. 190T. Left Xew York for a trip around the world 
by the easterly route, August, 1904; got as far as Egypt only 
February, 1905 ; wishing to visit Japan, and the Russian fleet 
being just ahead of me I changed my plans, taking the west- 
erly route, arri\'ing in America after an absence of one year. 
Stopped a few days at Los Angeles before resuming my jour- 
ney and learned the sad news of the deaths of \\ ells and 
Jones. This was indeed sad news. I missed them very much 
as we had been in the habit of meeting each other daily when 
they lived in Los Angeles. Have been traveling via Honolulu 
Japan, China, Singapore, Penang, Ceylon and India, making 
extensive detours in the latter country, crossing from Calcutta 
to Bombay my last stopping place. Will next visit Egypt 
again and the Nile, then Palestine, Greece, Constantinople and 
Italy again, Switzerland, France again, also the British lies 
again. Last year I took in Tangiers, Gibralter and much of 
Spain. I go by easy stages and hope to arrive in America 
about January next, as I said before. Traveling agrees with 
me. To see new places and new people is a constant pleasure. 



Department of Literatfre, Science and Arts 131 

I feel quite at liome now on board an ocean liner, and diMi't 
see how I can ever rest in one place anv more ; surely not as 
long as I have the health and strength to endure its fatigues 
of travel. I have often regretted my absence from the St. 
Louis Class reunion in 1!)()4. I was in Northern Canada then. 
Arrived in St. Louis one week late. Stayed two days but 
sufifered so wdth the heat I did not see anyone I knew. A 
month later I returned and slaved until it was time to sail 
from New York. About this time I called on Dawson and 
\\diitman in Chicago, and had a letter from Day. All were 
well and prospering. Of course it would be great pleasure 
to hear from you. I hesitate to ask this favor knowing", as I 
do, that much time has been given by you to Classmates in 
such matters. I trust good fortune has favored you. I surely 
wish you success and happiness in all your undertakings. 
Should you favor me with a few lines please address me at 
Jerusalem. Palestine care Thomas Cook & Son. That com- 
pany has ofSces along the main traveled routes and are al- 
ways ready to receive and forward mail to travelers. 
Most cordially and sincerely your old Classmate, 

J. S. MALTMAN. 

London, England. June IT, 1!»10. 
My dear Carter: 

Accept, please, my heartfelt greetings for yourself and mv 
dear old classmates. Though far away in Old England. I 
will be with you in spirit on June 29th at the Ann Arbor re- 
union. 

Your circular letter was received ; and wdiat do I read there? 
That all the boys, except one, are passed the age of sixty 
years. This seems impossible. To me they are the same as 
of vore, without a grav hair or wrinkle. 



132 Class of 70, T'xiversity of ^Iichigan 

Am one of the oldest of the class and very, very far below 
the age of sixty. If proof were needed you should have heard 
me sing' a college s.ong just nOw. 

The cause of this was a pretty girl, ten years of age, who 
sat at my side, and among other prattle, said she was really 
a very pretty girl. Whereupon I struck up the old college 
song: 

"The prettiest girl that e'er T saw. 

The prettiest girl that e'er I saw. 

The prettiest girl that e'er T saw. 

Was sucking cider through a straw. 

You recall the other A-erses ; the last being: 

And when at length the straw did slip, 
And when at length the straw did slip. 
And when at length the straw did slip, 
I sucked the cider from her lips." 

v^he said "that was a very nasty thing to do," and on my 
adding a verse of 

"Saw a freshman's leg off — Short." said "College men were 
very cruel men." ATy laugh at her remarks were taken as an 
affront, leaving the rooui shouted l)ack, "You l)etter come 
down off your perch." You can see no sixty years in that 
but rather a girl and boy about the same age. Thus college 
songs and college memories help to keep us young. 

If you ask how I am and how the world uses me, I answer, 
good luck and good fortune is my lot. Years ago all business 
cares and worries were at an end, and T began traveling over 
the earth ; going wherever I pleased, enjoying the best the 
world had to offer. Am contented and happy, ^^d^at more 
can mortal ask? With cares gone, the dreams and ideals 
inspired by University studies and college men came back to 



Department of LriERATURE, Science and Arts 183 

life again. I have to thank my stars that my lot has been 
cast with those splendid fellows who comprised the glorious 
class of 'TO. Our studies at Ann Arbor helped to make the 
earth and sky an open book. Thus, the other night, alone, I 
stood on the house top gazing at Halley's Comet and rever- 
ently said, "Blessed be the name of the Lord," and almost in 
the same breath added, "and blessed be the name of 'Old 
Toughy' and his conic sections," for I recalled our class 
in Toughy's rooiu, and a comet's path chalked out on the 
blackboard. 

Mind you. these old nicknames are mentioned here with 
kindly reverence. On scanning the Heavens "Tubby Wat- 
son" and our old class in the chapel are recalled, \\dicrever 
rocks and fossils are tossed up. or polyps and starfish seen on 
the seashores \A'inchcirs able lectures are brought to mind, 
even the conundrum whether or no there were worms in the 
Potsdam period. Frof. Wood stimulated observation in en- 
gineering. Punky W^illiams' problems in physics. Madamoi- 
selle Spence the French language. Latin was brushed up 
that we might wrestle with Latin inscriptions on numerous 
monuments, and French, German and Spanish for use in coun- 
tries where spoken, not forgetting the pious exhortation- on 
Sunday afternoons and the bright spiritual countenance of 
Doctor Haven. Before chaucer's tomb in Westminster Abbey 
memories of Prof. Tyler are recalled a'.id our class in the old 
chapel scanning the lines of Chaucer's Legend of Good 
Women — 

"A thousent sythis have I heard men telle 

That there is joye in hevene, and peyne in helle, 

And I accorde wel that it be so ; 

But natheles, this wit I wel also. 

That there ne is non that dwellyth in this cuntre 

That evthir hath in helle or hevene ibe,'* 



134 ('LA«S OF 70, UXIVEKSITY OF MICHIGAN 

and thus every day is full of entertainment wheresoever the 
Fates lead me. 

On the day of the reunion, the 20th, I will visit Cambridge 
and (Jxford. walking' on the ground where Chaucer walked, 
viewing the lil)raries, the Manuscript Plato, the Manuscript 
Virgil, the cartoons of Raphael and Michael Angelo, and will 
expect to feel the condensed magnetism of University life 
and an atmosphere redolent with lofty ideals and memories of 
Great Britain's great men. ( )n that day 1 will recall with af- 
fection our beloved class and Alma Mater, wishing each class- 
mate and his family long life, prosperity and happiness. 

Ever sincerely yours. 

JOHN S. MALTMAN. 

His son. John, graduated in lOlO at Santa Clara College, 
California, and took a post graduate course at Berkeley with 
law as a probability. 

Los Angeles. June, 1920. 

]\Iy Dear Carter: 

Please accept my grateful thanks for your kind letter and 
notice, touching our Class reunion set for the 23 of the present 
month. I am keenly disappointed at not being able to meet 
my ever beloved Classmates on that occasion. It would be 
unwise for me to risk the fatigue of the journey and excite- 
ment of those three or four precious gala days at Ann Arbor. 
Such is the judgment of my friends here, and I must obey. 

Our Centennial Reunion will soon be here, A. D. 1970, 
when we all can meet together again. Put me down for that 
reunion. Surely I'll be there, whether it be in Paradise — or — 
or — in — never mind, I'll be there. 

Swearing anew, fealty, and love for our Glorious Class and 
Classmates, I remain as ever, 

JOHN S. MALTMAN. 



Department of Litekature, Science and Arts 135 

Los Angeles, Cal., Nov. 29, 1920. 

Aly Dear Mr. Carter: 

Both copies of your circular calling for "copy" also your 
kind letter of recent date have been received, also a photo- 
graph of the reunion attendants at Ann Arbor in June last, 
for all of which I thank you most sincerely. 

Sometime ago, I began to write in compliance with your 
call, when my doctor advised that I abandon the effort and 
quit thinking about it. Health conditions was the cause. I 
had been very much shaken up with the "flu" ; not expected 
to live. I am doing fine now. but not well enough to have 
the ban removed. 

Please let me know how^ much time, if any. remains before 
you go to press; I may yet be permitted to write a few lines. 

I will greatly value a list of the names of those show^n in 
said photo ; the surnames of classmates if you please. 1 have 
already numbered each gent 1 to 16 and the ladies 17, 18, 1!). 20. 
commencing at the left. Dawson is the only one recognized, 
No. 4. 

Ever Sincerely Yours, 

T. S. T^TALTMAX. 

MILO ELIJAH MARSH, B. S., LL. B. 

Born in Town of Brighton, Livingston Co., Mich., Nov. 16, 
1847.— Died at Benton Harbor, Mich., Feb. 5, 1916. 

Class Letter. 

Port Huron, April 13, 1876. 
Dear Old Classmates : 

The long looked for Class letter reached me the other day 
and when I took it out of the office my first thought was that 
I had got all the deeds and abstracts of some great real estate 



ISi) Class of '70, r.xivKRSiTY of Michigan 

case, but how great my joy when I perceived it was our Class 
letter. It took me some time to read them all through, but 
it did me good to hear from so many of the boys at once. 
First then as to my history: The summer after graduation 
I went to Kansas on a visit ; in the fall bought a horse and 
buggy and returned overland to A. A. ; passed the next two 
years in the law department ; was admitted to practice spring 
of 1872. Came to Port Huron in September of that year. 
Was married to Miss Ida J. Whitney of Ann Arbor, Dec. 20, 
ISTl, and have two daughters. 

Yours in 'TO, 

MILO E. MARSH. 

Mr. Marsh continued his editorial work and journalism as 
legislative correspondent for several Dailies until the fall of 
1914, when due to ill health, he was compelled to retire from 
active business, ^^'hile on a visit to his niece in Benton Har- 
bor, he was stricken with pneumonia, and after two weeks' 
illness, died in Pienton Harbor, Feb. 5, lOKi. and was buried 
in Oak Grove Cemetery, Milford, Mich. 

He never took any interest in sports of any kind Init did 
enjoy a game of chess or checkers, also devoted much time 
to landscape gardening. 

He is survived by three daughters, ^lyrtie Amont, who 
married Willis Lee Smith, an auditor, wdiose address is 1006 
Carmel Ave., Detroit, Mich. ; Meirabell Lowell, who married 
William Austin Harrington, a lawyer at Gaylord, Mich. : 
Blanche Winnifred, who married Charles W. Harrington, 
stock-room foreman of the Cadillac Motor Car Cn.. address 
;)2n ^^'est Grand Blvd., Detroit. Four grandchildren survive 
our classmate. The widow of our classmate died at Ann Ar- 
bor. Liiuiary 12, 1021. 



Depart:\ient of Literature, Science axd Arts 187 

WILLIAM FREEMAN MATTHEWS, A. M., B. D. 

Born in Bethel, Vt., October 3L 1849.— Died at Kansas City, 
Mo., June 5, 1915. 

Class Letter. 

New York. Feb. ?. 1876. 

(Matthews) 

The Class letter comes to me first this centennial year. It 
is like wine which improves with age. It seems to have new 
vigor since its Rip Van Winkle sleep. May its bnlk continue 
to increase, and its postage too. 

A few words will suffice to tell my history which has been 
neither striking nor eventfid. 

Taught school at Grand Rapids one year after graduation, 
September '71, came to New York to attend Union Theolog- 
ical Seminarv. Took the regular three years' course there. 
On graduation I took charge of "Hope Chapel" a Mission 
church connected with the 4th Ave. Presbyterian church ( Dr. 
Crosby's). Have been there ever since, "^ly field" is in the 
densest populated portion of the city. China is nowhere. 
Often go into a house and find 50 or 60 children. 

I am not married, though I have married several (|uite fine 
looking young ladies. Balance of letter illegible. 

WM. F. MATTHEWS. 

Mr. Matthews was severely afflicted with neuralgia during 
the last few years of his life. The last letter which came from 
him was dated at \A'hitehall, Mich., June 16, 1910. in which 
he made inquiries about our reunion that month, but thought 
it very doubtful about his being able to attend. He was with 
us, however, for the last time. 



138 Class of TO, University of Michigan 

A letter from his widow after liis death dated at ;!T14 Wal- 
nut Street, Kansas City, Mo.. July S, lltl."). states: 

"He always enjoyed the Class reunions. A few months ago 
he said he thought he would be able to attend the June meet- 
ing". \\'e knew he would not. for he was at that time (|uite 
helpless, but we were not expecting" that he would be takeit 
from us so soon. He had had three partial strokes of paraly- 
sis and the last one was fatal. He was not conscious of much 
sufifering" during the last months of his life. As he was so 
helpless it certainly was a blessing" that he did not realize his 
condition to any great extent. \A'e miss him all the more on 
account of his helplessness, but we feel that our lo'^s is his 
gain and it will not be so very long until we shall all meet 
him. I always enjoyed hearing" hin"i tell of his college days, 
and now that he is gone it is a great source of comfort to be 
remenibered 1)}' Ir's classmates." 

MICHAEL ALEXANDER MEYENDORFF, C. E. 

Born in Letwenia Province in Russian Poland, December 3, 
1849. Died at Portland, Oregon, February 7, 1908. 

Class Letter. 

Washington, D. C, March 22, 1875. 

Dear Classniates : 

Believing that the object of the Class letter is to give an 
opportunity to every fellow to blow his own horn rather than 
waste time in apologizing" beforehand, for the egotistical style 
of my letter, I shall at once proceed to state all I can about my 
doings since we parted. College days over, a more stern life 
began. Its pleasures and troubles in mine were many, yet in 
the midst of them I always gratefully remembered the kind 
and considerate treatment I received from you, and my college 



Department of LriERATrRE, Sciexce and Arts 139 

days indeed will always be remembered amou"" the ])leasanl- 
est in my life. Some of vou will rememl)er that 1 left A. A. 
about the middle of April, 1<S70, through the indulgency of 
the faculty and kind assistance T received from "Dixie" XobD, 
and Bird. I have passed my examinations in two subjects in 
which I had not passed before leaving" A. A. and my dij^loma 
was sent to me shortly after commencement. My first ex- 
perience as a civil engineer commenced on the St. Louis & S. 
E. Ry. and I was successful enough to secure positions for 
three other of our Classmates. "Dixie", Davock and Culley. 
The first two and myself coidd tell you some wonderful stories 
about the long-eared and slim-bellied pigs and * * * dried up 
corn of the Wabash country in Posey county, Ind., where 
months were spent together. July 1st. '71, my engagement 
with that road ends and with the N. P. R. R. begins. I, ac- 
cording" to instructions of the Chief Engineer of the road re- 
ported on duty in Montana. July 21st. Remained in the em- 
ploy of that company till November. 'To. when work on that 
road was suspended. In the winter of '71. I made a visit east. 
Spent a few weeks at A. A., a few weeks in Kentucky and 
some two months in Xew York City, returning to Montana in 
the spring" of 'T2. Wdien the N. P. R. R. suspended operations 
I was foot loose and having" a few hundred dollars in my 
pocket, thought to try my luck at mining. About 1st of De- 
cember, 'T3. I reached a UMuing camp in Arizona of whose 
rich wonders I had heard. Invested in mines nearly every 
cent T had. Four months' experience there satisfied my 
wishes and I left for California with money just enough to 
take me there. I reached San Francisco in April. A few 
days later I was employed and out surveying for the San Joa- 
quin & King River Canal Co. Did not like it and when soon 
after I received an ofifer of a position in Surveyor General's 



140 Class of 'TO, University of Michigan 

office in Montana, I acce])te<l it. Reached Kelena in June, 'T3. 
There 1 reniaineil until hist Se])teniber, (h:)ing" welh There 
were several weeks in succc-sion at dilTerent times when I 
was making $100 per week. ( )n July '<?n(l, 'T4, I met with an 
accident, fracturing' m\' hip Ixone. It paralyzed my ]:)rospects 
very nuich and compelled me to return cast for medical treat- 
ment. Recovering" ])artially, I secured a position in the De- 
partment of the Interior, where I am now and where I intend 
to remain as I am com])elled to l)y ni}- fractured limb. 

Faithfully Yours, 

M. A. MEYENDORFF. 

The Seattle Post-Intellioence of May 25, 1903, contained 
the following with reference to a call on Meyendorff, while 
he was sick at the Providence hospital, by President Theodore 
Roosevelt : 

President Roosevelt yesterday appeared to the inmates of 
Providence hospital a cheerful visitor carrying sunshine into 
the camp of the stricken. The president went to see an old 
friend, ^Michael A. Meyendorff, who is a patient in the hos- 
pital. The presidential carriage and escort whirled out of the 
dust of Third avenue u]) to Fifth, on the return trip from the 
Grand opera house and halted in front of the hospital building 
a little after noon. 

The visit was a surprise to the sisters in charge. It was 
unannounced, but the welcome tcj the president was no less 
enthusiastic. Flags and bunting decorations, spread otit in 
welcome of his visit to the city now received a literal inter- 
pretation of the welcome to the building itself. 

As President Roosevelt and his secretary mounted the 
stairs, the sisters stood in waiting to receive him, the sister 



Departmpjnt of Literature, Science and Arts 141 

superior acting" as hostess. President Roosevelt at once asked 
for Mr. Meyendorff, and ascended in the elevator to his 
friend's room. 

President Roosevelt learned of the condition of Mr. Meyen- 
dorff yesterday morning" when the latter sent a note to the 
Washington hotel asking for the pleasure of an interview at 
the president's headquarters. Mr. Meyendorff' received a 
reply that he should not stir as President Roosevelt would 
come in person to see him. 

Going up to Mr. Mevendorff. the president extended both 
his hands in the most cordial manner. 

"Awfully sorry to see you in that condition. T wish you 
would get well," he said, with lower jaw protruding, and with 
smiling" face speaking" in quick, impulsive manner. The two 
had some conversation, in the course of which the president 
went to the window and gazed upon the grounds. 

The street in front of the hospital was crowded with people 
and numbers of them were seen running in the direction of 
the waiting carriage. The president turned and reniarked 
that it would not do to stay, as every second he was staying a 
thousand people were gathering. 

Meanwhile all the patients of the hospital who were able to 
leave their beds had been summoned to take a look at the 
president. He came out and greeted them. C">ne old Grand 
Army man, Simon I^undy, went up to the president and said 
he was a veteran. President Roosevelt shook his hand and 
called him comrade, telling hini that he was glad to n"ieet him. 
. The rounds of the hospital were not made, as time did not 
permit the president to stay much longer. In all he was there 
about ten minutes. P)efore leaving" he shook hands with each 
sister and referred to a coincidence in regard to the name of 
the hospital. 



142 Class of TO, Uxiveksity of Michigan 

The only hospital in which he had ever Ix-en a patient in 
his life, the j^resident said, was also conducted by sisters, and 
was called Providence hospital. That was in Indianapolis. 

As the president entered his carrias:ie the crowd surged 
closer, but there was no cheering, only an appearance of sup- 
pressed enthusiasm. Way was made, the horses whipped up. 
and the party proceeded to the Washington. 

Michael A. Aleyendorff has been intimately ac([uainted with 
the president ever since the days when the latter was chair- 
man of the civil service commission. Mr. Meyendorfif holds' 
the office of special agent for the general land office of the 
interior de])artment. and having been long in the government 
ser\'ice has made the accpiaintance of many prominent men. 

Mr. ]\Ieyendorff's career has been a picturescpie one from 
his early days. He comes of a noble Polish family, and 
would, if he claimed his rank in his native country, be termed 
a baron. AA'hen he was 1:5 years old he entered the Polish 
army as a private in the revolution of 18();i, and fought for 
two months side by side with the older soldiers. His brother 
was shot and his family ruined. Young Michael was given 
the chance of swearing allegiance to Russia or going into exile. 

But exile was preferable and after imprisonment in a Rus- 
sian fortress he was sent to Siberia, presumably for life. A 
half brother of ^leA-endorff's, Col. Julian Allen, of the Amer- 
ican army, also a refugee, was serving on Gen. Sherman's 
staff in Georgia, in the hottest days of the Civil A\'ar, when 
he first learned of the boy's plight. He proceeded to W^ash- 
ington and laid the matter before President Lincoln. Nego- 
tiations were opened through the American ambassador, and 
upon the payment of a certain sum, Meyendorfif was turned 
over to the United States. He came to America in 1S6G and 



Department of Literature, Science and Arts 143 

l)ecame. as he termed it, a ward of the governnient, and en- 
tered the Class of 'TO of the University of Michigan. 

Mr. Aleyendorff lias talked of his adventuresome career often 
with the president, he said, and the president has urged him 
to write of his experiences. Mr. Meyendorff came to Seattle 
last December, and is now a convalescent patient at Provi- 
dence hospital. Me seemed yesterday to be greatly impressed 
with the thoughtfulness of the president in sjiaring him a few 
minutes of his tiiue. 

Los Angeles. Cal.. June 5, 1905. 
My Dear Carter : 

It is just my bad luck — I was sure some few weeks ago that 
I would have the i)leasure to greet you and the rest of the 
"boys" at the ap]:)roaching' reunion, but my recent orders from 
Washington decreed against it — certain imperative work will 
tie me here — and this would have been my first and alas, the 
only chance. Soon we all will be called to meet in a reunion 
beyond the grave. Some may linger many years, but many 
of us will reach the limit within the next ten years or so. All 
I hope for is that St. Peter will appoint you as secretary at 
the Golden Gate to keep the earthly past record of the Class 
of '70 and thus you may get me with the rest of the grand 
class (should I be detained elsewhere when you report for 
duty to him) within the gates. 

I wish you all a most joyful time at the reunion and may 
you all live long and prosperous life. 
Your friend in '70, 

MICHAEL A. MEYEXDORFF. 

Extract from letter of Plon. \\\ C. Bristol of Portland, U. 
S. attorney for Oregon to Rufus H. Thayer, Washington, Feb. 
18, 1908. 



144 Class of TO, rxivKRsri^' of Michigan 

"Commencing' upwards of two }'cars ai^o at the time of my 
first ac(|naintance with him, he exhihited inchcations of having' 
contracted Bright's diseasj. Others of his friends and myself 
prevailed n])on him to consult ])hysicians, which lie ultimate- 
ly did, hut failing to follow, in many instances, their advice, 
the inroads which the disease had already made upon his sys- 
tem increased tci so alarming an extent that for the last six 
months he was confined practically to his room. His funeral 
was Monday, Feb. 10th, at 1 :-'>(^ p. m. He preferred to be 
cremated. Services were held at St. Stevens Episcopal Chap- 
el, where he had attended with zeal, and with the Rector of 
which he was upon terms of intimacy. Leaving the Chapel, 
we brought the body to the crematorium, where other services 
were held, and. he was there incinerated. 

Everything" was done that could be done to assist his de- 
parture from this vale of tears that was commensurate with his 
brief career upon this earth enfeebled by sickness and bodily 
infirmity and surrounded by cavil hatred and machinations of 
his political enemies. * * "^ '^ * His last days, by reason of 
the inroads of the disease, were fraught with pain and sutTer- 
ing and for the week prior to his death he lay largely in a 
comatose condition, unable to recognize any of his friends or 
to appreciate the happenings about him." 

GEORGE WASHINGTON MICKLE, C. E. 
Born in Lancaster, Penn., February 17, 1848. 

Address: .'511 Hall lUiilding, Kansas City, Mo. 

Nothing has been heard from Mickle for several years, 
though letters and circulars have been sent regularly to him 
at his address in Kansas City, Mo. It is supposed that he has 
continued in the real estate business there. Mr. Schock re- 



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ported that he called and had a vi^it with him on his way 
back home from the June, 1020, reunion. 



PROFESSOR BERNARD MOSES, Ph. D., LL. D. 

Born in Town of Burlington, Conn., August 28, 1846. 

Address: Paris (at last account). 

The following- is taken from The Bulletin of San Francisco, 
dated December 19, 1914: 

Professor Bernard Moses, after an absence of nearly four 
years in Paris, returned last week to his State of California, 
to find such radical changes to have taken place politically, at 
least, as to make him feel like a stranger in a strange land. 

'T seem to know only the ancient," said Professor Moses 
with a gentle whimsical smile, "or at most the ancient and 
medieval history of the State. The modern period appears 
to have begun recently." 

"California does not loom on the Paris journalist's horizon. 
Peaceful comnmnities or commonwealths excite only limited 
interest in the minds of Europeans, particularly if they do not 
lie as impediments on their highway to conquest and military 
g^lory. Military topics, during the last decades, have over- 
whelmed considerations of peace. The European has been 
thinking of late in terms of war. He has almost forgotten the 
vocabulary of peace. The peaceful occupations of California 
signify nothing to him, except as a means of feeding armies 
and keeping the destitute from starvation. Only the events 
of our recent war with Mexico, wdiich was not a war, but 
simply the invasion of the territory of a neighboring sover- 
eign state, find space in the columns of European newspapers. 
The world's present calamity is the result of persistent think- 



14(1 Class of "70, University uf Michigan 

in^' in terms of war. Tlie ])er\'erse spirits wlio persist in 
thinkiiii^' (jr writing' about war with ja])an on the occasion of 
every sH^htest disagreement between that nation and the 
United States, may nltimatel_\- produce European relations on 
this side of the worhl. The best way for nations to avoid 
war is to think about peace. As a nation thinketh, so it is." 

Few men in this country are l)etter qualified to talk on all 
that i)ertains to povcrnnvnt than Professor Moses. For close 
on to forty years he held the chair of Political Science and 
History in the L"ni\ersity of California. As one of the not- 
able commission, when the Philippines' became a United 
States" possession, Ik- was sent to establish there a civil gov- 
ernment, with judge \\ . H. Taft, who was to become Presi- 
dent of the L'nited States, as chairman of the commission. 
Between the years of IDOIJ and P.) 10 he was sent to South 
America on affairs of State — a^ Minister Plenipotentiary, as 
member of the Pan-American Scientific Congress, Santiago 
de Chile, and as delegate of the International Conference of 
American States at lUienos Ayres. In between he found time 
to contribute scientific articles to the leading magazines, and 
to write such notable treatises as "Federal Government in 
Switzerland," "Democracy and Social Growth in America," 
"The Establishment of Spanish Rule in America,"' "The Rail- 
way Revolution in Mexico," "The Establishment of Municipal 
Government in San Francisco,"" "South America on the Eve 
of Emancipation," "The Government of the United States." 
In his four years" sojourn abroad he has just completed his 
greatest and latest work, "The Spanish Dependencies in v^outh 
America." 

Although the snows of many years have descended upon 
him, and honorably retired from the university as Professor 
Emeritus, instead of finding him .amidst ease and leisure tc^ 



I)i:]*AKT.Mi:\T or I.nKKATriti:, Scikxck anh Auts 147 

vvliicli liis loiii^- }-ears of active service Wduld entitle him, I 
found liini at the I'^aculty Chih in Berkeley, in liis study, as 
dee]jly ininiersed in work as tlu' most enthusiastic of the 
youni^er facidty. The hu^i- round center table was ])iled with 
Spanish volumes which had just been un])acked. lie was 
plunged in nianuscri|)ts at his writing' desk', >eated as^ainst 
a tall ])anelled J^Vench window overlooking' a f;narled and 
noble old oak, which in the soft li,i;ht of a late rainy after- 
noon, made a beautiful, harmonious background to a nt^ble 
figure, the intellectual face which the weight of years had 
chiseled only the more strongly, and with a mass of silken 
silvery hair tumbling a bit riotovisly over a firm white fore- 
head, and into eyes deej) set, gentle, kindly and c«)ntemplative. 

Professor Moses shrank visibly from publicity, and e.■^l^ecial- 
ly from the hurried, un])re])ared news])a])er interview, which, 
through the very rush in which it must be got out, of neces- 
sity precludes that scientilic accuracy of the more leisurely 
prepared statement. 

"All my life," said Professor Moses, "has been devoted to 
acquiring accuracy. The least inaccuracy in (pioting me in- 
flicts an injury exactly like a ])hysical wound respecting the 
tendency of public aiTairs in California is embarrassing. Know- 
ing little about the happenings in California during my years 
of absence, of course. I was naturally more or less -hocked on 
arriving in New York City to hear jjersons speaking about 
California as being even more radical than populist (Jklahonia. 
Their notion seemed to be that in attempting to bring about a 
larger measure of efpiality California was preparing to be 
ruled by an aristocracy, or an oligarchy of commissions. 

"We must not mistake popular government for representa- 
tive government. The makers of the government of the Unit- 
ed States had the reasonable idea of constructing a govern- 



14S Class of 'TO, Umvkusitv of Michigan 

mcnl in vvhicb the laws should be made l)y intelligent persons 
selected for that i)nr|)ose hy their fellow citizens. In depart- 
ing from that ])lan, we run the risk of substituting the com- 
mission government for a representative government. The 
evils of such a change will not be manifest at iirst. It will 
only make its appearance if the commission should be appoint- 
ed by some power not the people. 'IMien it will develop its 
real bureaucratic character. 

"Popular government uku' defeat itself like a machine in 
which the friction counteracts all the power that is api)lied 
to it. Whenever the machinery of government becomes 
cumbersome, or difficult to oi)erate, by reason of elaborate and 
roundabout methods, and the unwieldy multitude of persons 
involved in its activity ; by doubling the number of voters, as 
with woman's sufifrage. without raising the average political 
intelligence, and by frecjuent appeals to the whole body of the 
people for the decision of important and far-reaching (|ues- 
tions, as in this last election, where you say the peoj^le were 
expected to vote on some forty-eight propositins. couched in 
involved and highly legal terms, and any one of which was a 
task for a specialist, the social friction of the government has 
reached a point where in the course of time a modification of 
the method of operating will l)e found to be necessary. 

"An early step in this modification will be a decline in the 
estimate of the significance or importance of the popular vote. 
Already, not only here, but also in other parts of the Rejiublic, 
there is manifest a desire to remox'c the vital and practical op- 
erations of go\'ernment farther than ever before from the great 
body of the citizens. This is illustrated not only in commis- 
sion-governed cities, but also in commission-governed trans- 
portation and commission-governed banks. You state that 
the Railroad Commission includes within it- jurisdictit)n all 



Department of Literature^ Science and Arts 149 

pnljlic utility corporations of gas, light, power and street rail- 
ways. 

"This movement is undoubtedly in the line of greater effi- 
ciency, but it does not lead towards that ideal democracy, 
which is said to l)e the end sought in the social agitation of 
the present. Even the voters themselves, in their most ex- 
panded ranks, help on the movement towards oligarchic, or 
bureaucratic rule, particularly when they take away from the 
inhabitants of towns the right to regulate certain matters of 
traffic within their own borders, and confer it upon an auto- 
cratic commission, the meiubers of which may never have seen 
the town in question. This is not a strange phenomenon, for 
some of the most grinding tyrannies that ever oppressed a 
people were set up by popular vote. It is un(loul)te(lly true 
that you cannot fool all the people all the time, but you can 
fool a sufficient numl)er of them from time to time, if you 
present for their acceptance or rejection a large nund^er of 
laws or amendments to laws, complicated, and far-reaching 
in their effects, and written in the involved and technical 
language which few persons besides the courts have the ability 
to understand thoroughly.'' 

"The extension of the suffrage, the referendum and the re- 
call are designed to maintain equality — how otherwise may it 
be maintained?" he was asked. 

"The equality you are thinking of," replied Professor Moses, 
"can be maintained, I fancy, only under conditions that do not 
admit of social progress. The inhabitants of some of the 
mountai'n cantons of Switzerland maintain a good degree of 
equality. No one can become rich. All live as their ancestors 
lived. And all have about the same amounts of property and 
essentially the same occupation. If they had more abundant 
opportunities, some would become richer than the rest, and 



150 Class? of 70, Uxiveksity of Michigan 

with their riches would come different occupations, better op- 
portunities for education, and a style of living that the rest 
could not aft'ord. ^-'ocial inc(|uality is an incident of progress, 
and cannot be eliminated from social growth. 

"Eut equality before the law is another matter. It means 
that the law is administered to all persons subject to it, with- 
out favor to any. 'i'his cannot be secured by mechanical pro- 
cesses. Xo arrangement of offices or conditions of suft'rage, 
or increased complication in the machinery of government can 
reach the innermost mind of the judge or other official who 
exercises the final discretionary power in administration. 

'"The only remedy in this case is a higher degree of individ- 
ual morality. If your individual man, who is likely to get 
into office, and gets into office, is morally rotten, your gov- 
ernment will be rotten. The vital cpiestion here is not of more 
complicated govern'.nental machinery or constitutional amend- 
ments, but a higher type of man. Mexico has an admirable 
constitution and excellent laws, but its government is wdiat 
the men of the time make it, irrespective of the laws. 

"I am hardly in ])osition to answer x'our question about our 
relation to Mexico, for I know only im])erfectly what the gov- 
ernment of the United States has done in the long-drawn out 
crisis. I heard much in the beginning about the necessity of 
holding a proper election in Mexico. This seemed to me," 
said Professor Moses, with his characteristic whimsical smile, 
"to be a somewhat severe exaction, in view of the fact that 
Mexico never had an election which most Americans would 
consider proper. 

"Looking from afar, there seemed to be only two courses 
which a reasonable government standing for the United States 
could afford to take. These were either to recognize Huerta 
or to send an armv of about three hundred thousand men 



Department of Literature, Science and Arts 151 

over the border and take possession of the country. The 
second of these coukl have been wisely contemplated only as 
a last resort, only in case Hnerta, as the recognized president, 
failed to preserve order and protect the rights of foreigners 
in the republic. 

"It is quite probable there would have been no need to re- 
sort to the second alternative. Even if a powerful interven- 
tion had proved to be necessary, it would have been under- 
taken in such form that the interests of individual Mexicans, 
as well as of aliens in the country, would have been secured, 
and the nation would have been saved anarchy. And at the 
most favorable time possible, Alexico would have been 
brought into a position which it is destined soonor or later to 
occupy. 

"A hundred years ago Mexico and the I'nited States had 
each about the same number of inhabitants. At the present 
time the United States has approximately one hundred mil- 
lions, while Mexico has about seventeen millions. If the rate 
of increase in the two countries during" the last century is con- 
tinued during the next humlred years ]vIexico will have about 
thirty millions and the United States about six hundred mil- 
lions. But the two nations will not be able to maintain the 
isolation of the past. 

"The more rapidly growing population of the United States 
will spill over the border. True to their traditions and the 
practices of their ancestors, the Mexican inhabitants will in- 
sist on excluding the peaceful invaders from the enjoyment 
of political rights, and through the class that will follow the 
Mexicans, unless supported by some other power, will go to 
the wall. The generation that will witness this crisis may 
have reason to regret that their larger conflict was not pre- 
vented bv the absorption of the Mexicans by the United States 



152 Class of "70, I'xn kksitv or Micjikjan 

when that pc()])lc liad un Ici^itimate government, and, in a 
state of social chaos, was rent asnndcr by factions at war. 

"Why do we l)hnider constantly in our dealings with Latin- 
America? That in(|uir_\' has a short answer and a lont^" an- 
swer. The short answer is. because of our profound ignor- 
ance of Ivatin-Anierica, and the strength of v^i)anish and Portu- 
guese tradition. 

''The long answer involves the contrasted histories of the 
northern and southern halves of this continent. Mexico's 
special and present intinnily is due to a too extensive applica- 
tion of the Diaz administration. L'nwilling to permit power 
to ])ass out of his hands. Diaz allowed a generation to grow 
up without any sense of ]:)olitical res])onsibility. When the 
tyrant was removed the nation very naturally went to pieces. 
We seem to have entertained the childish ncUion that by as- 
sisting one of the parties in a re\olution to victory we might 
put an end to revolutions in that country. The triunij^h of 
one partv excites oj^i^osition, and this op])osition has no effec- 
tive way of exjjressing itself, excei)t by a resort to arms. 

"There are only two rational courses that may be pursued 
in treating the Alexicans: Kither let them carry on their in- 
ternal (|uarrels withtnit interference, or subject them to a 
disci])line im])osed by force. We have a])parently followed 
neither of these courses. Yet in connection with the Si)anish- 
American war it was made clear that a rebellion in a neigh- 
boring countr\- is not necessarily a purely domestic aff'air. 

"The rebellicMis and re\-olntions of Mexico have an inter- 
national (juality in so far as they affect the rights and inter- 
ests of other nations. The last word of statcsmanshi]) was 
not uttered when Americans were ordered or advised to leave 
Mexico. Thev were rightly there, and entitled to protection 
by the Mexican government, because Mexico was recognized 



DEI'AUT.MKXT of I.ITKKATrUK, SCIENCE AXU AUTS 153 

as a ci\-ilized state. \\'hen it failed to perform tliis duty of 
state, other nations were released from any oblii^ation to treat 
it as a civilized state. 

"If Mexico had been recognized as merely a collection of 
savage tribes, ])crsons entering- the country for purposes of 
business would have done it at their own risk, and there would 
have been a sufificient answer to their com])laints that leav- 
ing the country involved their financial ruin. But Mexico, 
assuming' all the rights and obligations of a civilized nation, 
presents an entirely different case. American citizens have 
not entered Mexico armed and prepared to defend their in- 
terests, as in a savage country. 'Phey have entered under the 
protection of a government presumed to be able to meet its 
obligation, and when the Mexican government failed they 
were entitled to the immediate and sufficient protection of 
their own government. 

''In the failure of this government to furnish the re(|uired 
protection, American citizens have been subjected to vast 
financial losses, and the leaders of wandering bands of brig- 
ands, knowing the United States to be harmless, have ac- 
([uired great importance in the eyes of their followers by de- 
fying and showing contempt for the American government." 

Professor Moses held the chair of History at Albion Col- 
lege in 1875, before going to the University of California. In 
1919 he gave to the public his work entitled "Spain's Declin- 
ing Power in South America, 17;50-180G." He has been a con- 
tributor to leading magazines. 



154 CLAtss OF 7(1, 1'mvi:i:sitv of Michigan 

ALFRED NOBLE, C. E., LL. D. 

Born at Livonia, Wayne Co., Mich., August 7, 1844. — Died 
New York City, April 19, 1914. 

^\'as born Au,mist 7, 1S4-!:, at Livonia. \\'ayne Co., Michigan, 
where his parents, Charles and Lovina (Douw) Noble, resided 
on a farm. His grandfather, Norton Noble, was in the war 
of 1812 and his ancestors were in the revolutionary war. He 
received his early education at the district school of his native 
place. He li\'ed on the farm until 18(J2, when he enlisted for 
the civil war in the 24th ]^lich. Vol. Inf., and from October, 
1862, to February, 18(i5, he took part in all the battles of the 
Army of the Potomac. Was mustered out of the service in 
June, 1865. From July, '65, to Septeiuber, "67, he held a posi- 
tion in the \\ ar Dejiartment at Washington. Made his pre- 
paration for college at the Union School, Plymouth, Mich., 
and with private instructors in Washington. He entered the 
University of Michigan in '6T as a sophomore in class of '70. 
While an undergraduate he was absent a year and a half in 
the employ of the government and kept up his studies at the 
same time, taking his degree with the class. He was a mem- 
ber of the Philozetian debating club and the Alpha Nu liter- 
ary society; joined the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity; was elect- 
ed vice-president of his class in Junior year. From June to 
September, '10. he was engaged on harbor surveys on the 
eastern shores of Lake Michigan and at Cheboygan and Al- 
pena on Lake Huron. In October, 18T0, he was put in charge 
of the work at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., and when, in 18T3, it 
was found necessary for the government to build a new lock 
he practically, under the direction of Gen. Godfrey Weitzel of 
the United States Engineer Corps, designed and brought to a 



Department of LriERATruE, Science and Arts 155 

successful completion the lock since known as the Weitzel 
lock. In the design of the new lock Mr. Noble introduced a 
number of novel features which at once engaged the attention 
and admiration of engineers all over the world, serving" as 
models for similar designs ever since. Writing of this in 1914, 
Mr. Joseph Ri])ley, who was associated with him there, says: 

"The masonry was the finest of its kind ever built in this 
country. The filling and emptying' culverts located under the 
floor of the lock, the gate hangings and the hydraulic operat- 
ing" machinery were all new features. The gate and valve en- 
gines have been in constai"it use every season since 1881 and 
have worked easily, efficiently and rapidly, without any fail- 
ure and without any repairs except the annual repacking of 
the cylinders and occasional renewal of minor parts." 

In August. 1882, on the practical completion of the construc- 
tion of the canal, he resigned his position to acce]:)t an ap- 
pointment as resident engineer of the R. R. bridge across 
Red River at Shreveport. I^a. In March, '88, he resigned this 
position also to accept a siniilar one for the construction of a 
bridge across Snake River at Ainsworth, Washington Terri- 
tory. In September of that year he took charge of a bridge 
over Clark's Fork of the Columbia River in ^Montana. Snake 
River bridge was completed in May, '81, and Clark's Fork 
bridge in June. ^Ir. Noble began the construction of founda- 
tions of an iron viaduct across Marent Gulch, Montana, in 
September of the same year, and the foundations of a bridge 
across St. Louis Bay, at west end of Lake Superior in October. 
He completed the foundations and the erection of the super- 
structure of Marent Gulch viaduct in June, '85, and St. Louis 
Bay bridge in May, according to original plans, and began the 
construction of an additional draw bridge in July; and from 
August to October was at Trenton, N. J., inspecting iron work 



]5(; Cl.ASS OF "TO, r.XIVKRSITV OF MlClIKJAN 

for the draw span. From October. 'S."). to January, 'SG, he 
was attending- to the erection of St. Louis P^ay bridge ; Feb- 
ruary, '8() he was in New York City, in the office of George iS. 
Morison. During Aiarch and A])ril he was inspecting bridge 
manufacture in ButTalo. and in May was inspecting- iron at 
Pottsville, Pa. He then returned to New York in June. He 
visited Omaha bridge in July and tlien went to St. Paul, for 
temporary duty in the office of N. P. R. R.. as acting- principal 
assistant engineer. In September that year he went to Pitts- 
burg- to inspect iron for the same company, but soon accepted 
an appointment as resident engineer of the bridge across Har- 
lem River, at 181st St.. New York City, where he remained 
till July. '8T. when he resigned to accept an appointment as 
resident engineer of Illinois Central R. R. bridge across the 
Ohio River at Cairo, 111.; and in '88. assumed charge, also as 
resident engineer, of the bridge across the Mississippi River, 
at Alernphis. Tenn. 

■ The Cairo bridge was opened for traffic Oct. 29. 1889, and 
his connection therewith closed with the following month. 
The Memphis bridge was opened for traffic in May, 1892. He 
then moved to Chicago and entered into a limited partnership 
with Mr. Geo. S. Morison, who had been chief engineer of the 
Cairo and IMen-iphis bridges. During the term of this part- 
nership Noble was assistant chief engineer of the bridge at 
Alton across the ^Mississippi and the britlges across the Mis- 
souri at P>ellefontaine and Leavenworth. After the expiration 
of the partnership. Ai)ril :'(». 189-1. he began a general practice 
as consulting engineer, which he continued up to the time of 
his death. The degree of LL. D. was conferred on Alfred 
Noble bv the University of Michigan in June, 189."). and by 
the Universitv of Wisconsin in June, 1904. He was appointed 
a luend^er of the Nicaragua canal board by President Cleve- 



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land in 1895. The appointment was not songht by him and 
was pecuHarily gratifying" for this reason and also because it 
placed him in connection with an engineering" problem of great 
interest which was in line with his earlier work. The board 
visited Central America, examined the route of the x\icarag"ua 
canal and also the Panama canal ; then returned to the United 
States and completed its work Nov. 1. IS!)-"). In July, ISOT. he 
was appointed by President McKinley a memljer of the L'. 
S. board of enginers on deep waterways to make surveys and 
estimates of cost for a ship canal fron"i the Great Lakes to deep 
water in the Hudson River. This was also congenial work. 
It was completed in August, 1900. In June, 1899. he was also 
placed by President; McKinley on the Isthmian Canal Com- 
mission, which was charged with the determinanon of the 
best canal route across the Anierican isthmus, and it has been 
substantially on the route selected by this commission that the 
Panama canal has been constructed. During its continuance 
Xoble visited Europe with his colleagues to examine the data 
relating to the Panama canal collected in the office of the 
canal companv in Paris, and visited the Kiel, Anisterdam and 
■Manchester ship canals. He also made two trips to Central 
America to examine more fully the canal routes there. 

In the spring of 1898 he was appointed by William R. Day, 
then Assistant Secretary of State, as arbitrator in a dispute 
between a citizen of this country and the government of San 
Domingo. He visited that island, returning to New York a 
few days before the declaration of war with Spam. In the 
autumn of 1900 he was appointed a meniber of an engineer 
board to advise the state engineer of New York concerning 
the plans and estimates for a barge canal across that state. 

In November, 1901, the city authorities of Galveston, Texas, 
appointed Alfred Noi)le, Henry C. Ripley and General 



158 Class of 70, University (if Michigan 

Robert as a board of eni^ineers to dexise a ])lan fi)r protecting" 
the city and suburbs from future- iniuidation-. They reported 
a })lan in\'ol\'ini?; th.-j buildin,^' of a solid wall of concrete over 
three miles long and sexenteen feet in hcis^ht above mean low 
water, the raising" of the city grade and making an embank- 
ment adjacent to the wall, the whol^ to cost about three and a 
half millions of dollars. This plan was carried into effect. 

In Xovember, 1!)I>1, he formed a ]:)artncrship with Ralph 
Modjeski for the design and construction of the l)ridge across 
the Mississippi River at Th.bes, Illinois, which bridge was 
opened in May, lOOT)." 

In January, 1!HC^, Xoble was appointed chief engineer of the 
East River Dix'ision of the new Pennsylvania Railroad ter- 
minal in Xew York City, the division embracing excavation 
at the site of the passenger station, tunnels under streets east- 
ward to East River, four tunnels under the river and a large 
terminal vard (jii Long Island, the woi"k tmder his charge cost- 
ing abr)ut thirt\- millions of dollars. This work was completed 
in 1909. 

In 1905 he was appointed by FVesident Roosevelt a member 
of an international board of engineers to recommend whether 
the Panama Canal should be constructed as a sea-level or a 
lock canal. This board consisted of thirteen members, of 
whom five were nominated by foreign governments. Noble 
was one of a minority of five, all Americans, who recommend- 
ed the adoption of a lock plan ; their views were adopted by 
the government and the canal has been btiilt in accordance 
with their recommendation. 

In March, 1907, Xoble was one of three appointed by Presi- 
dent Roosevelt to visit the Panama Canal to investigate al- 
leged conditions regarding the fotindations of some of the 
principal structures ; this duty was completed in a few weeks. 



Department of Litekatire, i^ciExcE and Arts 159 

He was obliged to decline a similar aj)i)()intineiil two years 
later. 

After 190!^) he was engaged in practice as a consulting en- 
gineer; probably the most important question dealt with was 
in regard to the dr}- dock being built by the U. S. government 
near Honolulu. He also served as a consulting engineer for 
the Board of Water Supply of Xew York City and in like 
capacity for the Public Service Commission for the First Dis- 
trict of the State of Xew York. 

The foregoing" account of Alfred Xoble's career since 1902 
is nearly in his own words, as he wrote them only a few 
weeks before his end for the purposes of this class history. 
His characteristic modesty and brevity of expression prob- 
ably furnished the reason for his omitting to mention his 
work during this latter period for the Canadian Government 
in connection with the foundations of the Quebec Bridge and 
the enlargement of the \\'elland Canal, as well as his investi- 
gations for various vvaterpower and other corporations. 

The first of the water-power projects involved a study of 
the regulation of Lake Superior for the Michigan Lake Supe- 
rior Power Company. This problem covered four years of 
continuous work, and the report, filling three large volumes is 
now filed with the International Waterways Commission. A 
surprisingly large proportion of this work was done by X'^oble 
personally; if he had a w^^akness, it was in this habit he had 
formed of doing possibly too much work himself. 

He visited California twice to examine and report upon 
projects for the Big Meadows D:im for the Great Western 
Power Company, and gave a large part of his time, extend- 
ing over a vear, to the study of a power development on the 
Susquehanna River. He also made a study of an extension 
of the plant at Xiagara Falls; a study of power possibilities 



]<!() Cl.ASS OF "T(t', rNIVEHSITV OF MICHIGAN 

on the St. Lawrence River; and a report on a plant at Grand 
Falls, New Brunswick. 

He did nuich work for the cit}- dnriui^' the latter ])art of his 
life. The city made use more particularly of his al)ility as an 
expert in tunnel matters, first, on the many miles of tunnel for 
the Catskill Aqueduct, north of the city, and the deep tunnels 
under the Boroughs of Manhattan and liroriklyn and the East 
Ri\-er, and, secondly on the sul)way tunnels, especially the 
four East River tunnels known as Routes oo and 4<S. 

Aside from the KiO uiillion dollars, more or le^is, which was 
the cost Ot the Caisk'ill Acpieduct, and which he cannot be 
said to have ])assed u]ion as a whole, the value of the work 
referred to him for his judgment during the four years totals 
nearly BH) million dollars. This is menticjned only as giving 
some idea of the magnitude of the responsibilities wliich were 
placed upon him, and as an iuflication of the \'alue placed 
U])on his judgment. 

(Of what was ]ierha])s his greatest public service, and of the 
degree in which the comitry owes it to him for the avoidance 
of a disastrous failure at Panama, his brief statement con- 
veys no idea. This has been characterized as follows: 

"As most of our readers will remember, all the foreign 
engineers and three of the American engineers united in a 
majority report advising the construction of a sea-level canal. 
Five American engineers, with Mr. Noble at the head, stood 
out in favor of a lock canal. \\'e say. Air. Xoble at the head' 
because from his strong experience in connection with the 
lock at Sault Ste. ]\Iarie, Ik- was l)ctter 'd)le than an}' engineer 
upon the commission to speak authoritatively with respect to 
the construction and operation of great ship canal locks. To 
Alfred Noble's discerning wisdom and independent judgment 
and to his willingness to stand in a uMuoritx' in defense of 



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what he l)ehe\e(l to Ix' rit^ht. the country owes it today that 
it (lid not undertake what we now know would have been the 
folly of a sea-level canal at Panama. 

"In the struggle which followed the submission of these 
two conflicting reports, Mr. Noble's ability and strong {per- 
sonality had much to do with the final decision by which 
those in authorit}- rejected the majority report and adopted 
that of the minority."— ENGINEERING NEWS, April 23, 
'14. 

"The countr}- is under great obligations to him for his wise 
and far-sighted course in relation to the Panama Canal. As 
a mend)er of the International Board of Consulting Engineers, 
assembled by President Roosevelt in 1905, he threw the 
weight of his long experience and acknowledged engineering 
abilitv in favor of a lock as against a sea-level canal and wrote 
the report of the minority members of that body, in which 
the plan of the canal as constructed was outlined. As a mem- 
ber of a special commission of three sent by President Roose- 
velt to the Isthmus in 1!)0T to make a special investigation of 
the lock and dam sites, his signature to a report declaring the 
foundations safe and stable had great eiTect in reassuring the 
public confidence." 

GEN. GEORGE W. GOETHALS. 

"He was the dean of American engineers and has left a rec- 
ord of brilliant usefulness upon which it is inspiring to dwell. 
I had at one period much official relationship with him and 
came to respect him most highly as a man and as an engineer. 
His professional advice in respect to the type of the Panama 
Canal and the security of the foundations of the Gatun Dam 
was followed bv the Government and has been vindicated 
completely by the event." 

EX-PRESIDENT WILLIAM H. TAFT. 



1V)'2 Class uf 70, Univkusity of Michigan 

Alfred Xoble was a past-president of the Western Society 
of Engineers, the American Society of Civil Engineers and 
the American Institute of Consulting' Engineers. In 1!)10 he 
was awarded the John Fritz Medal for "notable achievements 
as a Civil Engineer." In 1!)11 he was elected an Honorary 
Member of the Institution u( Civil Engineers of Great 1 Britain, 
and in \'.)\'! receixed the I'^Jliott Cresson Medal of the Frank- 
lin Institute "in recognition of his distinguished achievements 
in the field of Civil Engineering." He was married May -U, 
18TE to Miss Georgia Speedily of Ann Arbor. She dC'd 
January 15. 1!»15. They left one son. Frederick Charles, who 
was graduated from the engineering department at Ann Ar- 
bor in 181)4, and is now following his profession in Xew York 
City, at 101 Park Ave. 

Alfred Xoble died April 111. MM I. in Xew York City. 

It is not so much his success as an engineer Init his tpialities 
of mind and heart, that his friends would recall. The follow- 
ing are some of the tributes to his memory: 

"The name of Alfred Xoble will live in our memories, and 
in history, with those wdio possessed the finest cjualities of 
heart and intellect." 

CHARLES S. CARTER, '70. 

"I well remember when Alfred Xoble came to the Uni- 
versity of Michigan, where he entered the Sophomore class 
in 186T. He was somewhat older than the rest of us, and. 
in mv opinion, far more able than any of us. He had had 
three years' experience in the army, and those who knew him 
there said that he had been a faithful and valiant soldier. I 
do not think any of his classmates ever heard him speak of 
his army career. He probably regarded it merely as part of 



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his duty, and not a thing to be talked about. ^loreover, he 
was at all times the most modest and retiring of men. Those 
of you who know him, I think, will have marked this char- 
acteristic. * * * In his case, the boy was father to the 
man. He was modest, kindly, industrious and capable, as 
boy and man. I need hardly say to you that he had partic- 
ular aptitude for the science of engineering, and unusual skill 
in the higher mathematics. ^Vhile he was easil}-, in my opin- 
ion, the first man in our class, I do not think there was any 
of our fellow-students who had the slightest feeling of envy 
or jealousy toward him. By common consent he was our 
intellectual leader. \\'e all liked him, and the more we emu- 
lated his example and tried to reach his attainments in 
scholarship, the better it was for us. 

"The last time I saw Alfred Noble was at the great Michi- 
gan banquet in New York in 1911, when as a member of the 
New York committee, he did very much to make that func- 
tion the great success it was. Whh his great qualities and 
achievements, he had a gentle vein of humor that made him 
the most agreeable of companions. In person, as you know, 
he looked his part, and was a most attractive man. To have 
known him and had his friendship is one of the most pleasant 
and valued recollections of my life." 

JUSTICE WILLIAM R. DAY, '70. 

"I first knew him as the great engineer, but came to know 
him also as the biggest, broadest and most human man with 
whom I ever came in contact." 

PAUL GOODWIN BROWN. 

"He was one of those great men whose modesty, gentle- 
ness and kindliness vested his greatness with a charm, and 



104 CLAst; OF 'TO, Umveusity of Michigan 

made all those who knew him love him as a man as strongly 
as they admired him as an engineer." 

RICHARD S. BUCK. 

"Like every one else that knew Alfred Noble, I not only 
admired him as a man and as an engineer, but had for him a 
real deep affection as a friend, and I feel that I, too, have suf- 
fered a loss today." 

COL. WM. BARCLAY PARSONS. 

"I have been struck with admiration for his great abilities 
and his splendid character as a man." 

HON. JOSEPHUS DANIELS. 

"Alfred Noble was my ideal of a man. a grand character 
embodying the best traits of human intelligence and person- 
ality. He measured u]) to the perfect standard of a Chief 
Engineer, with full technical and practical ability, ready with 
right expedients, always successful, with never a failure, with 
unassuming modesty, with a living honesty ot intent and 
deed, bright and spotless as sunlight, and an inborn gift of 
leadership which inspired loyalty to him and his work in 
everv employee, however humble or important the position 
might chance to be, and imbuing a spirit of service willing to 
go to the limit of uttermost endurance." 

JOSEPH RIPLEY. 

"He was to me a remarkable man, whom I counted as one 
of the few really great men I have known ; and I always re- 
joiced in learning of the deserved recognition of him by 
others. While he undoubtedly understood and knew of his 
marked ability, he never appeared to realize that he excelled 
or to assert it ; but had a quiet, unassuming, reserved and 



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kindly personality which was most attractive to me. He was 
reall}' a man that none knew but to love and none named but 
to praise. It is a gratification to remember that he won 
appreciation and distinction in his life work and did his life 
work grandly." 

JUDGE J. H. STEERE. 

*'I esteem it a great privilege to have known him and to 
have been, even to so small an extent as I personally have 
been, associated with the one man who in my opinion out- 
ranked all the other engineers in this country. His splendid 
character and honor have been a great influence for good in 
the profession, and we all miss that fine, guiding spirit very 
greatly. In his death there still remains to us the memory 
of one of the finest men that ever lived, finishing his course 
in the full possession of all his powers and at the summit of 
his fame. What can any of us desire for himself better than 
that?" 

J. VIPOND DAVIES. 

"He was one of the most companionable of men, and, while 
he could express himself with vigor whenever occasion might 
demand it, his nature was to accomplish his purposes through 
quiet and gentle procedures. In fact, he may properly be 
characterized as a gentleman in the best sense of the word. 
* * * He possessed unlimited stability and poise of mind. 
He could not be surprised into a conclusion not justified by 
his judgment, and it was unthinkable that he should reach 
an unwise conclusion through crude impulse. In endeavor- 
ing to find what qualities gave him the prominent position 
in the profession which he held, I think one must look chiefly 
to his perfect stability of character and judgment, his kindly 
nature unfailingly exhibited to all those with whom he came 
in contact, his uncompromising right principle, and his fine 



!()(> Class of 70, Univeksity of Michigan 

analytic capacity wliich he Ijrought to bear on all engineering" 
questions." 

WILLIAM H. BLRR. 

"He was a man for whom everyone entertained the highest 
respect, not onl}' for his professional ability and talents, but 
for his many endearing personal qualities as well." 

SAMUEL RE-A. 

"]\Ir. Noble was not only one of our great engineers, but 
the highest type of man in every respect, and his quiet, lov- 
able ways entleared him to all. Me will be greatly missed, 
and it will be very difficult to fill the position he has occupied 
in the engineering world." 

AMBROSE SWASEY. 

"He stood for nothing but the straight, unvarnished truth, 
and I am sure there was not a man who knew him but felt 
he was the better for having known him and the better for 
following him." 

JAMES FORGIE. 

"I feel that I have lost a true friend and the engineering pro- 
fession its foremost American representative." 

ISHAM RANDOLPH. 

''There are few men in the country to whom the Nation 
owes a greater debt for large service rendered." 

CHARLES WHITING BAKER. 

"In the passing of Alfred Noble our profession has lost one 
of its best and highest representatives — the leader in his spe- 
cial work, true to his friends, a gentleman, a man in all that 



Department of Literature, Science and Arts 167 

the word implies. He left a vacancy in cnir ranks that cannot 
be filled." 

JOHN F. WALLACE. 

"No life's record brings to the individual or to the enoineer- 
ino" pro''ession more honor than that of Alfred Noble." 

BRIG. GEN. A. MacKENZIE. 
"He was a preat man and a great engineer. When I think 
of an ideal to work up to, both as eng'ineer and a man. Noble 
comes to my mind first of all. * * * I am mourning- the 
best of men and the best of friends." 

RALPH MODJESKL 

"As a man he was of the highest standard of honor and 
integrity, and was the very personification of humility. I 
can only add my testimony to the fact that the L^nited States 
of America, and the profession generally, have lost one of the 
most distinguished engineers of this g-eneration." 

CHARLES M. JACOBS. 

"He was certainly one of the finest types of manhood that 
I ever met, either in the L'nited States or anywhere else ; able, 
kindly, strong-minded, sticking to his opinions with great 
determination no luatter how persuasive the arguments on the 
other side, and very thoughtful of others and generous in his 
dealings with them. I should say he was much the same 
type of character as Abraham Lincoln." 

SIR ERNEST W. MOIR. 

"I was always struck by his great sincerity and the ex- 
tremely fair way in which he examined any questions put 
before him. I felt that I should be quite satisfied to take his 
opinion as an arbitrator on any question which might be in 



108 Class of '70, Umveksitv of Michigan 

dispute in which I might be one of the parties. I say this 
not only on account of his professional qualities, which were as 
well recognized in Great l)ritain as in the United States, and 
Canada, but also on account of his fair mind and common 
sense." 

SIR MAURICE FITZMAURICE. 

"Noble by name and noble by nature, like all great men, he 
was entirely unassuming, patient, painstaking, and hard 
working; kindly, generous and unselfish; capable of meeting 
any obstacle and overcoming it ; strong and reliable ; courage- 
ous and never compromising with what he considered wrong." 

SIR HENRY JAPP. 

"The qualities in him that I like best to remember were his 
gentleness, genuineness, geniality, quiet humor, thorough 
sympathy with, and readiness to help others, by kindly advice 
or otherwise, wherever and whenever such help was asked 
or appeared to him to be needed. * * * 

"I have tried to think of all the attributes of which a man 
would wish to be possessed, and have endeavored, without 
■success, to find one which was not a feature of his character. 

"Alfred Noble was the best balanced, most lovable, most 
dependable, most useful man I have ever known. To meet 
him, even casually, was always a pleasure ; to have known 
him intimately was a great privilege." 

CHAS. WARREN HUNT, EL. D. 



Department of Literature, Science and Arts 11>9 

In all these tributes, what remarkable unanimity, and what 
evident sincerity! At the end of a life so honorable, so kindly, 
so useful as was his, what better ofifering to his memor}- can 
there be than the heartfelt expressions of his friends? 

The following' verses are by Mr. VV. L. Saunders: 

"At three score years and ten a useful life 

Has run its course. And as we think of him 

The sorrow and the flowing tears of friends 

Are turned to joy that such a one as he 

Has lived and wrought. Here was a man who led 

In building up. a mind endowed to see 

And think and do in all the larger things, 

A Captain leading men on Nature's fields 

To win in building monuments of peace. 

This engineer has shattered Nature's works 

To make the world a better dwelling place 

For all of us. His life was gentle and 

No thought of self within him dwelt. He won 

Scarce knowing wdiy. the plaudits of the world. 

Upon his monument let it be writ: 

'He was an Engineer. He was a man.' '' 

CLARK OLDS, B. S., M. S. 
Born at Erie, Penn., July 14, 1850. 

Address: Erie, Penn. 

I have spent my life with the labors and duties of the pro- 
fession of the law, having practiced continuously, making a 
specialtv of the Admiralty practice, but have only reached 
the plane of mediocrity in the profession, yet from time to 



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time have been connected with important litigation. I prac- 
tice in all the State and United States Courts. Was a dele- 
gate to the National Republican Convention at Chicago in 
r.)(14. at which time Roosevelt was nominated for President. 

I have been industrious and economical, accumulating some 
property. 

I have filled many ([uasi-public positions, mostly of a char- 
itable nature, such as for many years director and president 
of the Erie County Mutual Insurance Company, member of 
the Board of \A'ater Commissioners of the City of Erie, over 
fifteen years, and president of the Board for nine years, direc- 
tor of the Erie Chamber of Commerce eleven years and presi- 
dent one year, one of the managers and chairman of the 
finance committee of the Erie Cemetery for many years and 
president three years, director and president of the Lake Side 
Cemeterv for seven }'ears, director and treasurer of The L. 
W. Olds Real Estate Company eighteen years, one of the 
directors of the Erie Trust Company, member of the board 
of examiners for admissions to the Erie County Bar, chair- 
man of the Commission to build a public steamboat landing, 
at the port of Erie, built by the State of Pennsylvania, chair- 
man of the Commission to ascertain encroachments on the 
public lands bordering on Lake Erie, both of the above 
appointments made by the Governor in pursuance of acts of 
assembly, appointed by the Court chairman of a committee 
to adopt new indices for the county records. I was chairman 
of the local "Questionnaire Board" and a member of the local 
committee for placing all the Liberty Loan issues. 

Was a member of the Lake Mohonk Conferences on "In- 
ternational Arbitration" for seven successive years, up to the 
close of the conferences at the outbreak of the world war. 



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Am a member of the Erie County Law Association, the 
Erie Chib, the University Cliflj, the Kahkwa Country Chib, 
the American vSociety of Civil Engineers, Engineers' Society 
of Pennsylvania, Erie Board of Commerce, Erie Motor Ckib 
and Chairman of the Committee to revise the rules of the Or- 
phans' Court of Erie Co., Pa. 

I have only one child living, Irving S. ( )lds, who is a mem- 
ber of the law firm of White & Case, 14 Wall Street. New 
York City. He was at the head of the legal department of 
J. P. Morgan & Company during the time they were purchas- 
ing" supplies for the allies, also head of the legal department 
of the British \\'ar ]\Lssion. in Xew York, till the clos • of the 
war. 

I had the great misfortune to be bereaved of my wife in 
December, 1919. 

For recreation I have, in a small way, bred and raced a few 
standard trotting horses. 

The above comprises luy principal activities since the pub- 
lication of the last class history. 

DARIUS COMSTOCK PENNINGTON, B. S. 
Born in Town of Macon, Lenawee Co., Mich., April 22, 1847. 

Address: 400 Wilcox Ave.. Oroville. Cal. 
Mr. Pennington has given the greater part of his life to 
fruit raising in California since leaving the L^niversity. The 
work seems to agree with him. however, for he has accom- 
plished a great deal in that line and made a name for himself 
in his part of California. He sends the following letter: 

Yacaville, Cal. 
Dear Classmates: 

The notice of Noble's death was duly received. Our ranks 
are thinning fast surely, and the shadows are getting long 
with me, but I am still able to be about mv work. 



Ill' Class of 7(t', T'xiversity of Michigan 

I received your circular letter, containing' the list of those 
of the class who had "gone across the great divide," and also 
a request for data to be used in the supplementary class 
biography, which should have been forwarded long before 
this, but I am very l)usy all the time, and have much outside 
work that takes me about the state a good deal, especially 
during' the last of the winter and early spring, not to speak 
of the work on the ranch here, where I have from twelve to 
fifty men to oversee, depending" on the season. 

During" the season of cherry picking we have at times sixty 
men at work, so that wdien night comes, I am tired out, for 
age begins to tell on me, and it is not as easy to get through 
with the day's duties as it once was. 

As to my life, since the Class History was published, there 
has been nothing out of the ordinary, everyday work that 
comes to a fruit rancher in California and nothing" to place 
my name "in the lime light." I have plodded along, doing 
each day the thing that came to my hand to do to the best 
of my ability. T have made many friends and some enemies 
as well, and have also made something" of a reputation as an 
expert in niy line of work ; but it will not loom very large 
by the side of the most of my classmates, and I do not flatter 
myself that mv achievements will receive more than a pass- 
ing notice from anyone; nor that I have added much to the 
achievements of the class of '10. Like most people, I can 
look back and see the mistakes and blunders that I have made, 
but I trv not to let that hinder me in doing wdiat is ahead of 
n"ie to be done and I hope to "die in harness" with my face 
to the front. 

My Avife and the children that were left to me are still liv- 
ing. The children are all married, and we have eight grand- 
children — good average young Americans; and to get among 



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them makes me forget my gray hair and that 1 am getting- 
old. 

There does not seem to be anything farther that I can tell, 
and I shall be glad if what I have pnt down herein will help 
you out in your "labor of love." Therefore I will close, with 
best wishes and remembrances to you and yours, hoping that 
you will be spared to them and us yet these many days. 
Yours fraternally, 

D. C. PENNINGTON. 

JUDGE WILLIAM LORENZO PENFIELD, A. B. 

Born at Dover, Lenawee Co., Mich., April 2, 1846 Died at 
Washington, D. C, May 9, 1909. 

The following is taken from the New York Daily Tribune 
of May 10, 1909: 

Washington, May 9. — Ex-Judge William L. Penfield, for- 
merly solicitor of the Department of State, and an authority 
on international law, died after a long illness at his apartment 
in this city at o o'clock this morning. His death was due to 
a complication of heart and stomach troubles which had con- 
fined him to his bed for several months. The end came in the 
presence of his wife, a son and daughter, and a sister, Mrs. 
Duncan, of Greenfield, Ind. 

The funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon, and 
interment will be in the District of Columbia. 



William L. Penfield, Solicitor of the State Department from 
1897 to 1905 and authority on international law, was a native 
of Dover, Lenawee Countv. Mich. He was sixtv-three years 



174 CLAsy OF '70, University of Michigan 

old on A]iril 2 last. In his boyhood Judge Penfield, as he was 
most familiarly known, lived on a farm. He was graduated 
from the University of Michigan in 1870, after which he was 
for two yoars instructor of German and Latin at Adrian Col- 
lege. At the end of this term Mr. Penfield was admitted to 
the bar. He then went to Auburn, Ind.. to practise, after 
which he became identified with the of^cial and political life 
of Indiana. 

The rise of Judge Penfield in the legal profession and in the 
councils of the Republican party of his adopted state was 
rapitl, and he occupied in turn the offices of City Attorney and 
judge of the Indiana Circuit Court. However, it was 
as Solicitor of the State De])artment, to which ofiice the late 
President McKinlev a])pointed him, that the greatest oppor- 
tunitv came to him to tlemonstrate to its full his legal acu- 
men, and, as it later developed, his diplomacy. 

The incumbency of Judge I'enfield in that ofiice was 
marked by many perplexing and important international ques- 
tions. One of the most important of these was the case of 
several European countries against Venezuela, when he ap- 
peared at The Hague tribunal as counsel for the United 
States and Venezuela in the arbitration proceedings. Judge 
Penfield also represented the United States in the interna- 
tional arbitration of di.-putes between this country and Santo 
Domingo, Peru, Nicaragua and Guatemala. In these he se- 
cured for the United States awards aggregating $2,250,000. 
He w^as also special commissioner to Brazil in 1905. He re- 
signed from the State Department to resume the private prac- 
tice of law in Washington. 

In his political career Judge Penfield had been a member 
of the Republican State Committee of Indiana, presidential 
elector and electoral messenger in 1888 and delegate to the 



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Republican Xational Conxention in 1892. He was a member 
of the American Bar Association, the Indiana State Bar As- 
sociation and the Cosmos Club, of Washington. 

The Auburn (Ind.) Evening Dispatch of May 10th, 1909, 
containe;! the following": 

Judge W'illiiiin L. Penfield is dead. The long-expected end 
of this truly great man of his generation has come. After a 
heroic battle against a complication of heart and stomach 
troubles, he was forced to surrender on Sunday morning at 
5 o'clock in his apartment in the Ontario in Washington, D. C. 

Frequently The Dispatch has mentioned Judge Penfield's 
illness, and only Saturday said that all hopes for his recovery 
had been blasted. From day to day our people have watched 
closely to see any message of better news and have been hap- 
pily rewarded at times and saddened at others. 

For nearly three weeks oxygen has been administered to 
him to keep him alive, and even in that critical condition has 
showed signs at times that gave" the devoted family hopes. 
His case has been one of the most remarkable on record. His 
wonderful vitality seemed almost too great for the grim 
reaper to overcome, but he surrendered to the inevitable, sur- 
rounded by his devoted wife, his son, W'alter, his daughter, 
Blanche, and his sister. Airs. Duncan, of Greenfield, Indiana. 

Judge Penfield has a peculiar attachment to our city and 
community. A resident here for twenty-five years, he forged 
a chain of friendship that his twelve years of absence has 
failed to break. He is strongly linked to us. Here he mar- 
ried his wife. Miss Luna Walters ; here he raised his family 
of four children, two dying in childhood and now residing in 
the citv of the dead. Evergreen cemetery; here he filled a' 
prominent place in public and private life; here he built him- 
self a fine home on South Main street, and here he has main- 



17(1 Class of "Hf, rxivKusriv ok Miciii(;ax 

tained his lc,qal ■residence, even thoui^h he has been in ^\'ash- 
ington nearly all of the time since lSi)T. 

Attorney D. D. Moody claim -^ the distinction of Ijeing in- 
fluential in briniMn^- jud^'e I'enrtcld here from Adrian. Michi- 
gan. In is;-i, Mr. Moody and Dr. J. J. Littlefield were se- 
lected as a comnnttee to get a Fourth of July orator, and Dr. 
Littlefield, knowing judge Penfield. suggested him to Mr. 
Moody, who agreed on the judge being invited to si)eak in 
our city, which inxitation he accepted. In January following 
he came lu're and formed a ])artiiershi]) in the practice of law 
with Mr. Moody, which lasted three years. Then Auburn 
was ])ut a village as to the .Auburn we know today. Our 
older readers will recall this incident and immediatelv asso- 
ciate mnnerous oth r ha])penings of early day life with it. 

The funeral will be held in Washington on Tuesday after- 
noon and interment will be in the Rock Creek cemetery in 
the ca])itol city. 

The honorary pallbearers at the funeral will be chosen 
from among the mo-t prominent Tndianans at Washington. 

Tie was born on a farm in Lenawee county. ^Michigan, on 
April "i. 184r;, the fourth of a family of eight children. His 
I)arents, A\'illiam F^enfield and wife, natives of Xew England, 
were of English lineage. 

Judge Penfield spent his childhood days and youth upon 
the farm, aiding his parents b\' performing the labor which 
usuallv falls to the lot of a farmer boy. He early determined 
to rise above the s])here of his juvenile em-ironments. He 
attended the district school, and later, in the public schools 
of Hillsdale, fitted himself for a college course. After spend- 
ing some time in Adrian college, he entered the Michigan 
Lniversitv at Ami Arbor, where he pursued the classic course, 
fraduatinsj' with hit^h honors in bS'O. (^ne of his classmates 



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was Hon. William 1\. Day, later Secretary of State under 
President McKinley. and now on the ])encli of the Supreme 
Court of the United vStates. Soon after receivin<^ his diploma, 
the chair of German and Latin in Vdrian College, where he 
had formerly l)een a student, were tendered him, which posi- 
tion he accepted and held for two years. It was, however, 
his purpose to enter the lei^al profession, and while teaching 
he studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 18?2, and in 
January of the followini,'' year he came to Aul)urn and entered 
upon the practice of his life profession. 

Here he found stronii;^ com])etition in his ju-ofession, but 
realizing' that he had a name to make at the bar. and a repu- 
tation to secure, he never faltered. W ith the same courage 
and perseverance that has marked his entire career, he soon 
demonstrated his fitness for his chosen avocati()n. [le soon 
won a large clientage in both the state and the federal courts. 

In politics. Judge Penfield has always been a republican, 
and has taken an active part in campaign work from the time 
he was twenty-one years old. 

In 188L during the Rlaine campaign, he w^as a member of 
the Republican State Committee. In 1HH<S he was chosen 
presidential elector, and by the electoral college of Indiana 
was selected as its messenger to carry the result of the elec- 
tion to the President. In 1S!)2 he was chosen delegate from 
his congressional district to the National Republican Conven- 
tion at ^Minneapolis. In 1894 he was nominated by his party 
for the office of the Thirty-fifth Judicial Circuit of Indiana, 
and won the election by 1.T78 votes, the largest majority ever 
given a judge in this circuit. In Auburn he ran 178 votes 
ahead of the state ticket, and 320 votes ahead in DeKalb 
county, which, considering the many hard fought legal bat- 
tles waged by him against many of his constituency during 



178 Class of 70, University of Micukjan 

the twenty-two years of active practice, indicates his genuine 
worth and popularity among those who knew him best. His 
dignified and f.arlcss demeanor upon the bench, combined 
with his sound judgment and learning, commanded the ad- 
miration and esteem of the memljers of the bar whose lot it 
was to practice before. 

Tde served as judge until the .spring of 1897, when he re- 
signed to accept the ai)pointment by President McKinley, to 
the office of Solicitor of the United States Department of 
State. It was in this new field of labor that Judge Penfield 
had his first opportunity to fully demonstrate his great abil- 
ity, and prove his fiber. He served in that capacity through- 
out President McKinley's terms, and was reappointed by 
President Rooseveh, as the highest acknowledgement of his 
ability and great utility. 

During the critical days and events of the last years of 
Spanish rule in Cuba, the Spanish-American War, the Philip- 
pine Insurrection, and the Boxer War, with the exception 
of Secretary John I lay and later Secretary Day. no person 
stood closer to the president than did Air. Penfield. Upon him 
devolved the responsibility of preparing the opin:ons and state 
jiapers ])ertaining to those questions. As indicative of how 
well he performed those duties, and the high esteem in wdiich 
he was held by his superior officials, he was appointed by the 
president to represent the United States before The Hague 
permanent arbitration court, in the controversy with Mexico 
over the "Pious Fund Case of the Californias," this being 
the first case to be tried before the tribunal. He was later 
appointed by the president to represent the United States 
in the Venezuelan Arbitration before The Hague. Tribunal, 
in 1003. It will be recalled that this arbitration had its 
oriijin in a controversv which arose over certain claims of 



Department of Litkkatiue, Science and Akts 171) 

Great Britain, Germany and Italy, against Venezuela and 
following the blockading of the ports of Venezuela by those 
three powers in 1892, and the purpose was to settle priority 
of the claims of those three powers on the one side, and the 
claims of Venezuela, the L'nited States, Mexico, Spain, 
France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Sweden and Norway 
on the other side. 

^Ir. Penfield has also been counsel for the United States 
in international arbitration cases of the United States against 
San Domingo, Peru, Haiti, Nicaragua. Guatemala and Sal- 
vador; securing awards for the United vStates which amount- 
ed more than $2,000,000.00. 

After serving his government faithfully as solicitor for uj)- 
wards of ten years, during which tin^e some of the most deli- 
cate international (|uestions of the history of our government 
were settled with credit to the United States, he resigned in 
1905 and opened a law office in \\^ashington City, to practice 
international law. 

Aside from his legal work. Judge Penfield ha:s been a great 
student of general literature, and has to a large extent mas- 
tered the leading European languages. He not only has 
written many able articles on legal subjects for magazines, 
but has been the author of many intellectual articles and es- 
says in different literary magazines and ])eriodicals, and dur- 
ing the last few years he has delivered lectures on interna- 
tional law in the University of Washington. 

For two vears his son, Walter, was in ])artnership with 
him, and of valuable assistance to him. W^ilter, as we like 
to think of him, is well known here and commands the re- 
spect of a wide accpiaintance. Miss Blanche is also at home. 

Judge Penfield's eminence was of a type which money can- 
not purchase, close application and persistent efifort, combined 



180 Class of 70, Cxivkksitv of .Mk'Hhjax 

with strong ability. Whether in pubHc or private Hfe, as law- 
yer, judge or official, he was true to duty and the trust reposed 
in him. He was cpiiet and dignified in temperament and yet 
of a genial disposition, which, con.dnned with his broad erudi- 
tion and sound judgment, commanded the confidence and es- 
teem of those who came in contact with him. He was a man 
toward whom wc loved to point and say, "He was from Au- 
burn." 

Judge Penfield's son. Walter Scott Penfield, continues the 
law^ business at the office in the Colorado building, Washing- 
ton. D. C. He is a graduate ( B. A.) of Michigan and LL. B. 
from Washington University. Was appointed consulting at- 
tornev to the Panama Legation. A\'ashington, and counsel in 
arbitration as to boundary dispute between Costa Rica and 
Panama, 1912; same to Dominican Legation, and in arbitra- 
tion as to boundary dispute between Hayti and the Domini- 
can Republic. A\'as attorney for Xicaraguan Legation, 1911- 
13. 

AARON PERRY, B. S., M. S., LL. B. 

Born in Oakland County, Mich., November U, 1848. Died 
at Pontiac, Mich., February 12, 1920. 

Class Letter. 

Pontiac, Mich., January 25, 1878. 

The Class Letter, I confess brings to me sadness as well 
as joy. Wylie and Blackburn, poor fellows! Here is their 
jolly greeting, alas ! The last they will ever give us and all 
these messages have been delayed too long ever to greet the 
mortal eyes of poor W'^ylie. 

After graduation I spent the first summer recruiting my 
physical system, and the next fall entered upon the task of 



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teaching' the "Ortonville Academy" for the school year. , The 
next school year I taught "Ovid Union School." The next 
fall was elected to the state legislature (lower house). After 
the close of the session 1 went to Muskegon to take local 
charge of the harbor improvements at that place. \A as as- 
sociated with AVells as U. S. Asst. Engineer and with Bird 
and ]\Tickle as contractors. From Muskegon went to A. A. 
and read law until an extra session of the legislature was 
called in March, after which I entered the law office of Judge 
Baldwin at Pontiac and spent the summer and fall in study- 
ing lawr. Was defeated that fall for county clerk of Oakland 
county by the aggravatingly small majority of 11 votes. (The 
villains!) ^^'ent u]) Salt River and to A. A. in November 
and graduated in law the following T^Iarch. Spent the sum- 
mers of 1875-6 at Sand Beach, Mich., in U. S. service with 
"Dixie" Gilbert. Since then in law with Judge Taft under 
name of *'Taft & Perry." Married Miss Sadie Hofifman in 
1ST3. Our boy is talking about going to college. 

PERRY. 

Aaron Perry, oldest practicing attorney at Pontiac, Mich., 
and one of its most honored citizens, died at the home of his 
nephew, Jacob Perry, in that city, Thursday, February 12, 
1920. He was 71 years of age. 

His illness and death were the result of a gradual break- 
down in physical strength, which had been in progress for 
two years. After an extensive trip through the west the 
previous summer he enjoyed distinctly better health until 
after the holidays, but about two w^eeks before his death, be- 
came ill with a cold and fever. After a few days he seemed 
better, and even attended to some business matters, but a 
week later his growing weakness compelled him to take to 



182 Class ok "70, rxivKusrrv of MiciricAN 

his bed. Monday he was removed to his nephew's home. 
Tuesday he showed marked improvement and Wednesday 
morning was still better, but about noon his condition sud- 
denly changed and he grew rapidly weaker. A congestion 
of the lungs rapidly developed, and by night it was apparent 
that he had Init a few hours to live. I lis son, Stuart H. 
Perry, of Adrian, who himself was convalescent from an ill- 
ness, was able to reach his bedside while he still was con- 
scious and able to converse. The next day he grew steadily 
weaker and at three o'clock passed cjuietly away. The fun- 
eral services were held from All Saints Episcopal Church, the 
Oakland County Rar Association attending in a body as hon- 
orary pallbearers. 

Aaron Perry was born on a farm in Oakland county. Mich., 
November 11. 1848. the youngest of eight children of Abram 
and Sophia Andrews Perry. His father, a native of Warren 
county, N. J., came to Michigan in 1836, his mother being a 
native of Genesee county, N. Y. His mother died when he 
was( two years old and he lost his father when he was fifteen 
years of age. 

From his father's estate he received $700, which with ad- 
ditional borrowed money he expended in obtaaining an edu- 
cation. After attending the Clarkston union school he entered 
the University, where he was graduated in the cfass of 1870 
with the degree of P)achelor of Science. He was an active 
member of the Adelphi literary society and one of the speak- 
ers at the second sophomore exhibition. 

Returning to his home county, he entered politics in the fall 
of 1870, lacking one vote of obtaining the Democratic nom- 
ination for state representative. He taught that school year 
at the Ortonville (Mich.) Academy, and in 1871-2 he was 
superintendent of the union school at Ovid, Mich. 



DKI'AUT.MKXT of LlTKRATnu:, SCIKXTK AND AUTS lS-> 

In the famous Greeley campaign of 18T2, he was elected to 
the state legislature and with five others formed thv. Demo- 
cratic minority in that body. At the close of the session in 
1873 he went to Muskegon to take charge of harbor improve- 
ment work under his former classmate, C. M. Wells. In the 
fall of that year he entered the Law department of the Uni- 
versity, but left in the following March to attend a special 
session of the legislature called for the purpo.<<e of submitting 
a new state constitution. 

In the fall of 1874 he was a candidate for county clerk, 
being defeated by 11 votes out of 10,000 cast — a reverse which 
he later often alluded to as a piece of good fortune because it 
led him to resume his work in the law department of the 
university, where he was graduated the following spring. 

The two following summers he spent at Sand Beach, Mich., 
superintending certain harbor improvement work then in 
progress. The winters he spent at Pontiac in the office of 
Judge Augustus G. Baldwin, then one of the leaders of the 
Michigan bar. In the fall of 187G he took an active part in 
the Tilden campaign on the Democratic side, shortly after- 
wards entering a law partnership with Judge Levi B. Taft, 
which was later joined by Samuel W. Smith, who afterwards 
served in Congress from that district. A few years later 
Mr. Perry withdrew from the partnership and practitced alone 
for many years. From 189G to 1900 his son, Stuart H. Perry, 
was associated with him, and afterwards for a short time Ross 
Stockwell. now Judge of Probate, was the junior member of 
the firm of Perry & Stockwell. Nineteen years .ago with 
James H. Lynch he formed the firm of Perry & Lynch, which 
continued until Mr. Perry's death. 

The onlv public ofifices held by Mr. Perry were those of 
prosecuting attorney and city attorney, he having served in 



1S4 Class of 7(K rxivEusiTY of Michigan 

the latter capacity for a number of terms. He was twice de- 
feated for ofifice — once when a candidate for circuit judge and 
one when running as a delegates to the state constitutional 
convention, his district being overwhelmingly Republican. He 
was a delegate to the Democratic convention at Baltimore in 
1012, being an "original ^^'ilson man," and taking an active 
part in favor of Wilson's nomination. 

A man of spotless integrity, gentle disposition, and incap- 
able of malice or lasting resentment, he commanded at once 
the respect and love of those with whom he came in contact. 
No Pontiac citizen ever took a more conscientious view of 
public matters or a deeper interest in his home city than he, 
and there were few notable occasions when Mr. Perry was not 
called upon to speak. He was always a strong advocate of 
public improvements, particularly parks and playgrounds. 
He was a charter member of the Oakland County Hospital 
Association, and was an acti^•e member of the Chamber of 
Commerce, Pioneer Society and other local organizations. 
For many years before his death he had been president of the 
Oakland County P>ar Association, and was also the dean of 
the bar in length of service. 

In the forty-four years that Mr. Perry was engaged in the 
])ractice of law in Pontiac he participated in a very large 
number of important cases in the state and federal courts. 
\Miile an able and successful trial lawyer, his greatest 
strength lav in his profound and accurate knowledge of the 
law. his skill in briefing cases, anfl his success in difificidt and 
unusual legal problems. He was especially well versed in 
the laws pertaining to probate matters, and appeared in a 
great number of important cases involving wills and estates. 
His extensive knowledge of municipal and corporation law 
a^so caused him to be retained by many public bodies as well 



Department of Literature, Science and Arts 185 

as private corporations. Only five days before his death, 
though very weak from ilhiess, he insisted on going to his 
ofifice to perfect a bonding resoUition for a new county build- 
ing, turning over the finished resolutions to the committee. 
This was his last legal work. 

A man of broad culture and wide reading, his studies were 
by no means confined to the law. In addition to his large 
law library, he had a private library that was especially rich 
in scientific and historical works. For many years he special- 
ized in the study of geology and microscopy, and had an ex- 
tensive collection of works on these and kindred subjects, be- 
sides a large and scientifically valuable collection of fossils 
collected in his travels in all parts of the country and abroad. 
He wrote occasionally upon scientific subjects, one of his pa- 
pers being entitled "Surface Geology of Oakland County," 
describing the land formations of the county and their origin. 

He had traveled extensively in this country. Central Amer- 
ica and Europe, spending several months abroad with Mrs. 
Perry in 1908. He also was a great lover of nature, devoting 
much attention to the cultivation of flowers, shrubs and veg- 
etables. His last trip was made in the summer of 1919, a 
two-months' excursion with the National Editorial Associa- 
tion to the Pacific and the Canadian northwest. 

On Christmas day, 1873, Mr. Perry married Sallie Hoffman 
of Pontiac. She had been one of his assistants in the Ovid 
high school and, sharing his literary tastes, they found a wide 
field of mutual sympathy and pleasure. Her death in 1^18 
was a blow from which he did not recover and he began at 
once to fail noticeably in health, though retaining an optim- 
istic view of life and his keen interest in all public matters. 

They had one child, Stuart H. Perry, now editor and owner 
of the Adrian (Mich.) Daily Telegram, who was^ graduated 



18(> Class of 'TO, Uxiveksity of Michigan 

from the University of Michigan with the degree of A. li. in 
1894 and LL. B. in 1896. After practicing law four years 
with his father he entered journalism, first as editor of the 
Pontiac Press, then as proprietor of the St. Johns (Mich.) 
News, acciuiring his present newspaper property m 1907. He 
is prominent among the publishers of the state, and for the 
last ten years has been president of the Michigan Daily News- 
paper Association. In 1919 he received from the University 
of Michigan the honorary degree of Master of Arts for con- 
structive editorial work during the period of the war. 

REV. MAXWELL PHILLIPS, B. D. 

Born on a farm near Chester, 111., May 13, 1841. — Died at Al- 
bany, Oregon, May 5, 1920. 

Norman. Okla., March 20, 1911. 
Dear Classmates : 

I have your January circular, per secretary. 

So you want more of my history. Some great man (I forget 
who) said "Happy is that people that has no history." If 
this applies to individuals, and it seems that it should, then 
I am very happy; as Topsy "just growd," so I have just 
lived. Neither have wealth nor glory to show. The Good 
Book says: "The glory of old men is their gray hair." But 
nature grudges me even that glory, for at To my hair is 
scarcely beginning to turn. I still preach for pleasure, and 
farm for a living. I am away beyond the preacher's dead 
line, but I have my congregation (union) at my mercy, as I 
preach like Paul, without charge, and so can stay as long as 
I please. I have also the sweetest joy of a preacher's life 
to see that God enjoys my preaching and gives some fruit in 
conversions. 



Department of Literattre, Science and Arts 187 

I have had 12 children — nine living, 7 boys and two girls. 
IMy oldest son is in the Kansas City high school work and has 
five children. He is 40. ]\Iy youngest son is 0. The second 
son is in the real estate w^ork in California and has two boys. 

My third son., Harry, is a missionary in my old field, Mexi- 
co. Three boys, David, Paul and Kenneth, are all bigger 
than I am, are farming and studying, (^ur two girls 11 and 
13 years, today represent our school in a township spelling 
contest. 

Wife and I are working to carry the burden that God has 
given us, and each trying to lighten the other's load, but in 
this she beats me — as women generally do. 

The dawn is growing brighter, and the day will come. 

MAXWELL P. PHILLIPS. 

PHILLIPS— Rev. Maxwell Phillips entered his heavenly 
rest May 3, 1020, leaving a widow, seven sons and two daugh- 
ters. They are: Prof. F. L. Phillips, of Kansas City; M. E. 
Phillips, of Stockton, Cal. ; Rev. H. A. Phillips, of Merida, 
Yucatan; D. V. Phillips, of Oklahoma; P. C. Phillips, U. S. S. 
Clairton ; Kenneth, May E., Margaret F., and Malcolm, all of 
Albany, Ore. There are also nine grandchildren. He was 
born near Chester, 111., May 13, 1S41. When eighteen years 
of age he moved to Kansas, and was the first student of 
what afterward became the University of Kansas. After a 
year at lyawrence, Kansas, he went to Salina, and when he 
was twenty-one years of age enlisted as first lieutenant in the 
Third Regiment of Indian A'olunteers. He received three 
wounds and was promoted to the rank of captain. At the 
close of the war he decided to enter the ministry, and entered 
the University of Michigan. After three years his health 
failed, and he returned to Kansas for a, 3''ear, then entered 



188 Class of 'T((, rMVKUsrrv of Michigan 

Lane Theological Seminary, where he graduated in 18T2. He 
was sent as a missionary to Mexico City. After a year there 
he went north to Toluca, and later to Zacatacas. At Quere- 
tero he was mobbed and very severely wounded. While at 
Zacatacas he, with Rev. JJr. H. C. Thompson, published a 
Spanish newspaper. La Antorcha Evangelica, and he com- 
piled a Spanish-Greek dictionary. After this he spent a short 
time in Yucatan, then w-ent to Mexico City, where he taught 
Greek and histor}' in the Presbyterian College for several 
years. Later he engaged in missionary work in New Mexico. 
After leaving his Spanish work he farmed for a while in Kan- 
sas, then again returning to the ministry, he held several 
charges in Kansas and Oklahoma. Then for eleven years he 
farmed in Oklahoma, preaching also in schoolhouses when his 
health permitted. A severe attack of Spanish influenza com- 
pelled him to reiuove to the milder climate of Oregon. The 
funeral services were conducted by Dr. \A'. P. White, assist 
ed by Dr. ^^^ H. Lee, Dean of Albany College. 

SAMUEL B. PRICE, A. B., LL. B. 
Born in Branchville, Sussex Co., N. J., April 20, 1847. 

Address: 1T2T N. Washington St., Scranton, Penn. 

(Continued sketch from 1903.) 

From that time to the present have been engaged in the 
practice of law in the City of Scranton. 

My older son, C. P. Price, graduated from Princeton in 
190G, studied law in my office until 1909, when he was ad- 
mitted to practice on examination. During the period of his 
legal studies, he spent one summer at Ann Arbor in the 
summer school. My younger son, J. PL Price, after gradual- 



Depautmext of Liteuatt'iu:. Science and Arts ISt) 

ing from Blair Presbyterian Academy, entered Princeton Uni- 
versity and was there during freshman and sophmore years 
a portion of the time. His health was not good in either year. 
In 1907 he entered the University of Michigan and graduated 
with the class of 1!)09. literary department, and m the law 
class of 1011. He returned to Scranton, was examined by 
the State Board and admitted to the Bar in 1012. Since that 
time we have been associated in the practice of law. 

Continued with the Scranton Savings Bank until that bank 
was merged with the Scranton Savings & Dime Bank in 1013. 
Was president from 1807 until the merger, and became im- 
mediately a director of the new institution and remained a 
director until 1015. when I refused a re-election and asked that 
someone be elected in my stead. Director of Scranton Trust 
Company from its organization until the present time. 

Manager of the Scranton library from its inception in 1889 
until January, 1920, and was president of the Board of Man- 
agers for the last two years. Served six terms of five years 
each, and last December requested that some other person be 
appointed in my stead. 

Have been ofifered nomination for Congress, also for judge. 
Was nominated by Democratic convention in 1910 for Lieuten- 
ant Governor. Have declined in each instance to become a 
candidate, preferring private life and the practice of law. 

HENRY CLAY RIPLEY, C. E., DR. ENG. 

Born on a farm in Town of Broadalban, Montgomery Co., 
N. Y., July 15, 1845. 

Address: 2236 Cadillac Ave.. Detroit, Mich. 

July. 1003. found Ripley executing a contract of $200,000 
with the U. S. Government, for the construction of a stone 



190 ("LASS OF 'T((, Tnivkksitv of .Mhmikian 

jetty at Aransas Pass, Texas. This contract was completed 
in September, 1904. 

The plan of this work was designed by a board of Engineers 
of which Ripley was a member. It consisted of a jetty of 
curved form extending" across the bar and was designed to 
produce results with a single jetty, instead of two and thereby 
saving half the cost of the improvement. This jetty was par- 
tially completed by a private corporation for whom it was 
designed, but on accoimt of financial conditions its comple- 
tion was delayed and finally the work was turned over to the 
government without compensation, with the tacit understand- 
ing that the government would complete the improvement. 
However, the army engineers, to whom this work was en- 
trusted, were opposed to the plan from the start. It was not 
designed by an army engineer and that was enough to con- 
demn it. Congress insisted, however, that the plan should be 
tried out. Ripley had been before the Rivers Sc Harbors 
Committee of the House and the Commerce Committee of the 
Senate, to explain the theory upon which the ])lan was based 
and the members were so favorably impressed, that when the 
appropriation was made, it was stipulated that the funds 
should be expended in the completion of the work, as designed 
for the private cor])oration, known at that time, as the Aran- 
sas Pass Harbor Co. 

Before this appropriation was made, however, it was so 
apparent to the Army Engineers that Congress intended to 
accept a proposal of Ripley and his associates, to execute this 
work for a fixed sum with a guarantee of a channel depth of 
20 feet, on the no cure no pay basis, similar to the contract 
awarded to James P>. Eads, for the improvement of the South 
Pass of the Mississippi River, that the Chief of Engineers 
went before the committees above mentioned and promised 



Department of Literature, Science and Arts 191 

them that if tlie work were left in the hands of the Army En- 
gineers the plan would be carried out in good faith. 

This promise, however, did not prevent the Chief of En- 
gineers from appointing- an officer in charge of the work, whose 
every effort seemed to be, to prevent completion of the work, 
by violation of the specifications, which resulted in an un- 
necessary waste of material and increasing cost to the con- 
tractor. This violation of the specifications was so fiagrant, 
that as soon as Ripley had completed his contract he insti- 
tuted suit against the government in the court of claiius and 
after seven years of litigation, in which the case went to the 
Supreme Court, Ripley was awarded judgment in the sum of 
thirteen thousand dollars in round figures. 

During the execution of his contract Ripley lived at Rock- 
port, Texas, 14 miles from Aransas Pass and after its com- 
pletion he moved with his family to Galveston. This was in 
September, 1904, and in November Ripley was engaged by 
Mr. Percival Farcjuhar, who represented some New York 
capitalists, to go to Para, Brazil, to investigate the conditions 
of the improvement of the port with a view to take over a 
concession which had been granted to Joao Augusto Cavallero, 
a Brazilian and who wished to dispose of it to some one with 
sufificient capital to finance the enterprise and execute the 
work. 

In accordance with this arrangement Ripley went to Para 
and spent about three months in makings the investigation 
including tentative plans and estimates of cost of the contem- 
plated improvement, from data furnished by the Brazilian 
government. 

Ripley then went to Rio de Janeiro to help in the negotia- 
tion for the transfer of the concession to Mr. Farquhar. Be- 
fore results were reached, however, the Cavallero concession 



1!>1* ("LASS OF 'UK rxiVKUSlTV OF MICHIGAN 

expired and the government granted the concession to another 
BraziHan — Demetrio Ril^eiro. This coniphcatecl the situation 
so that at the end of ten months' negotiation, no agreement 
was arrived at. ]n the meantime, Ripley was engaged in the 
examination of several other Brazilian ports including Seara, 
Pernambuco, EJahia and Rio Grande do Sul which were being 
oiTlered to concession. In case of the latter port, Ripley made 
a thorough in\'estigation of the resources of the state. In 
comj^any with one of the state officials, he went over all of the 
railroad lines and up some of the rivers where traffic was most 
extensive. He also made plans and estimates for the im- 
pro\-ement of the port. 

This concession was granted t(^ the late ^^Ir. Elmer L. Cort- 
hell together with a contract for the im])rovement of the 
channel across the l)ar at the mouth of the Rio Grande River, 
which is the sea entrance to the port, on the "no cure no pay" 
basis. 

O'his work being finished and there being no immediate 
prospect of the conces'^ion for Para being granted in the im- 
mediate future, Ripley returned to the United States reaching 
New York, December l.Tth, and Galveston, December 22nd, 
1!)()5, after an absence of more than V^ months. He had not 
been at home, however, but a few days, when he was sub- 
poenaed as a witness in the Green & Gavnor suit at Savan- 
nah, Ga. Ripley was occupied on this case from January 
10th, lOOG, to April Hth, as expert witness. Mrs. Ripley and 
his little son Racine, were with him in Savannah during this 
time. Having returned to Galveston on April Oth with Mrs 
Ripley and Racine. Ripley left on the 12th of the same month 
for Guatemala to make an examination of the Port of Iztapa 
on the Pacific Coast of that republic. This tr!p was made 
from Ne\v Orleans bv steamer to Puerto Barrios, T)v rail and 



Department of Litekatuuk, Science and Arts 193 

horseback and coach to Guatemala City and thence by rail to 
San Jose and thence in canoe to Iztapa, arriving April 27th. 
The examination finished, Ripley left for New York by steam- 
er to Salina Cruz, Mexico, thence by rail via City of Mexico 
and Galveston to New York, where his report was prepared 
and preparations made to leave for Para, Brazil, to make a 
survey of that port, the concession having been granted. In 
accordance therewith he .>^ailed from New York for Para on 
May 2Tth, arriving at the latter place, June llth, 1906. The 
work here consumed two months' time and on the 13th of 
August, Ripley left Para for Rio de Janeiro where the field 
notes were plotted and plans and estimates for the port im- 
provement were to be made. This trip from Para to Rio took 
13 days and was very interesting. The steamer stopped en 
route at the following ports : Maranhao, Parnahiba, Ceara, 
Natal, Pernambuco, Maceio, Bahia and Victoria. Between 
these two latter ports many whales made their appearance 
and one of them came so close to the steamer that he could 
have been shot with a rifle. The spouting of these immense 
mammals was indeed an interesting sight. There must have 
been a plentiful supply of whale food in this locality. 

On December 13th, 1907, Ripley left Rio for Para on the 
steamer Ceara, arriving at the latter place on December 35th 
after an uneventful voyage of nine days" duration. 

Cpon arrival at Para, Ripley found an epidemic of yellow 
fever raging amongst the contractor's force employed on the 
work and twelve men had already succumbed to the disease 
and five more died later. These deaths were among the 
more recent arrivals from England, mostly mechanics and 
foremen. These losses greatly crippled the work and for a 
time hardl\' anvthing could be done, because many of the con- 



1J)4 Class of 'T(K rxi\i:Rsrrv of .Micjucax 

tractor's head men who had l)een imported from England be- 
came frightened and would not remain. 

On the 2r)th of February, 1008. Ripley was stricken with a 
severe case of intestinal gastritis which made it necessary for 
him to return to the United States for recuperation. As soon 
as he was able to travel therefore, he took passage on the 
steamer Obedience, which sailed for New York, March 22nd 
and arrived April 1st. Arriving' in Chicago on April -tth, 
Ripley spent a quiet six weeks with his family. 

Then having recovered sufficiently from his late illness to 
return to Brazil, Ripley left Chicago May 15th, 1908, accom- 
panied by Mrs. RipL'y, Loraine and Racine. They took pas- 
sage in New York on the steamer Yelasquez for Rio de Jan- 
eiro, which sailed Afay '^Oth. arriving in Rio June 9th. On 
the ITth of October. 190S, Ripley left Rio for Sao Francisco 
do Sul in the state of Santa Catharina, to make a survey, 
plans and estimates for the improvement of that port. Mrs. 
Ripley, Loraine and Racine remained in Rio, the latter attend- 
ing a missionary school. The work in connection with the 
Sao Francisco do Sul project consumed about four months' 
tiiue including two months at Rio Grande do Sul where the 
plans and estimates were made. This work being finished 
Ripley returned to Rio. sailing from Rio Grande do Sul Feb- 
ruary IG, 1909, and reaching Rio de Janeiro four days later. 

On May 3, 1909 Loraine and Racine returned to the United 
States, sailing on the steamer Byron, which left Rio on that 
date for New York. Their ultimate destination was Cin- 
cinnati, Ohio, wdiere their brother Birch was located. 

On June 18. 1909. Ripley left Rio for Para accompanied by 
Mrs. Ripley, where they arrived on July 1st. 

One month spent in Para. Ripley again returned to Rio. 
heaving July 31st. on the steamer Ceara. Tt was the captain 



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of this steamer, Jose Maria Pessoa who, as captain of the 
steamer Alagoas took Don Pedro II to Europe when he was 
deposed and exiled from Brazil some years ago. It was upon 
that occasion that the Emperor gave Capt. Pessoa a gold 
watch and pictures of himself and family. The watch was 
engraved inside, when translated into English "From Don 
Pedro and family to Capt. Pessoa" and the pictures were 
autographed by tlie Emperor and his family. 

This trip from Para to Rio took fourteen days, although 
the distance is but 2,500 miles. The numerous ports entered 
and long delays, therein consumed much of the time enroute. 

From this date until April 18, 1!)10, Ripley remained in 
Rio and on that date he and Mrs. Ripley set sail on the steam- 
er Vasari for New York, for a five months' vacation in the 
states. They arrived in New York on the 5th of May and in 
Cincinnati on the 6th, Avhere they were met by Pdrch, Lor- 
aine and Racine, who were living there at that time. 

Ripley attended the annual convention of the American So- 
ciety of Civil Engineers at Chicago, June 20th to 24th, 1010. 
The balance of his vacation was spent in Ann Arbor and on 
August 15th, he and Mrs. Ripley started on their return trip 
to Brazil, leaving New York on the steamer Vasari, on the 
20th of August and arriving in Rio de Janeiro September (Uh, 
1910. 

For the following two years and nine months, or until June, 
1913, Ripley remained in Brazil as advdsory engineer to Dr. 
Carlos Sampaio. the representative for the conijiau}- (with 
which Ripley was connected) in matters about which the 
Brazilian government had to be consulted. 

One of the most important works undertaken by the com- 
pany, was for the deepening of the entrance to Rio Grande 
do Sul. The concession for this work had been granted to 



19(i Class of 'TO, Uxiveusity of Michigan 

the late Mr. Elmer L. Corthell, the distinguished civil engi- 
neer, who at the time of his death, was serving as President 
of the American Society of Civil Engineers. By consent of 
the Brazilian government, Mr. Corthell transferred his rights 
in the concession to a company controlled by French capital- 
ist^, who financed the enterprise, and who appointed him as 
Chief Engineer of the work. Air. Corthell's plan for the 
work was designed to secure a navigable channel of 10 meters 
(32 feet) depth. This plan consisted of two straight parallel 
Jetties extending from the shore to and across the bar which 
obstructed tiie entrance. These jetties were estimated to 
cost some 'io Contos gold (about $10,000. ()()(). 000 ) and the con- 
cession was based upon this estimate although the company 
was to be paid only upon depths secured and the final pay- 
ment was to become due when the 10 meter channel was se- 
cured : but was to be paid only after the channel had been 
maintained for twentv \ears. 

While the plan contemplated two straight parallel jetties 
the concession i)rovided that the plan could be modified in 
any way that seemed desirable, as the work progressed. 

The course of the jetties was aj^proximately south and work 
was commenced on the west jetty first. Before construction 
on the east jetty was comiuenced, Ripley proposed to Mr. 
Corthell a modification of the plan, which would consist of a 
single curved jetty to take the place of the east jetty and work 
on the west jetty to be suspended indefinitely. This pro- 
posal was promptly rejected by Mr. Corthell without giving 
the matter any serious consideration. It may be said in 
justification to Mr. Corthell, that he may have considered him- 
self morally bound to carry out the two jetty project, in view 
of his representations to the government, that two jetties 
were necessary to secure and maintain the channel required. 



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Be that as it may, work was continued on the west jetty in 
accordance with the two jetty plan, but in 1911 Mr. Corthell 
resigned as Chief Engineer and Mr. Edouard Ouellennec was 
appointed to that position. Mr. Quellennec is the leading 
civil engineer of France. He was recommended by the 
French government, to President Roosevelt for a member of 
the International Panama Canal Commission and was so ap- 
pointed. It now seemed opportune for Ripley to again pre- 
sent his plan for a single curved jetty for Rio Grande do Sul 
bar improvement. He therefore took the matter up with Dr. 
Sampaio who was so impressed with it that he requested Rip- 
ley to present the matter to Dr. Francisco Bicalho. the chief 
engineer for the Brazilian government. Accordingly ar- 
rangement was made by Dr. Sampaio for a meeting and Rip- 
ley explained the plan to Dr. Bicalho. The whole conversa- 
tion was in the Portugese language, as Dr. I'icalho did not 
speak English, and it lasted about one hour. After it was 
finished Dr. Bicalho said that he believed Ripley's scheme 
would be successful and at a great saving in the cost of the 
work, but that the government should get the benefit of the 
saving. 

In June, 1912, Mr. Ouellennec arrived from Paris and Rip- 
ley had an opportunity to present the matter to him. In the 
meantime since ^Ir. Corthell's resignation, the location of the 
two jetties had been changed and the j^lan modified. The 
west jetty was moved further west, abandoning the work 
theretofore done, and the east jetty was rooted some consid- 
erable distance further east, the line converging towards the 
west jetty until the bar was reached when its course was 
changed by a gentle curve to a line parallel to the former. 

The fir-t conf^^rence with Mr. Ouellennec on the Rio Grande 
do ?,ul bir ])roblem was had on June Tth, and after Ripley 



ins Class of 7(1, rxivEusiTV of Michigan 

had presented liis scheme to him, Mr. Ouellennec said "that 
he thought the phiii would succeed, hut he wanted to think it 
over." (From Ripley's diary of that date). Again on June 
14th, Ripley had a conference with Mr. Ouellennec on a mat- 
ter relating- to the work at Para and Mr. Quellennec was 
asked about the Rio Grande do Sul bar problem and he said 
"the matter was a difficult one and that he wanted to consult 
with his engineers there". The only doubt in his mind he 
said was "whether the channel will have sufficient width." 
To meet this difficulty Ripley wrote him a letter giving data 
and reasons why the single curved jetty as proposed, would 
develop a channel of sufficient width for navigation. On 
June i:th Ripley met Mr. Ouellennec again and he told Rip- 
ley that he had read his letter and that he considered it a 
demonstration that the single curved jetty as proposed would 
develop and maintain a channel of sufficient deptli and width 
for all the needs of commerce. These details are given, to 
show how slow a new idea is in penetrating the mind of even 
a great engineer. 

( )n September 24th, Mr. Ouellennec sailed for Paris and at 
that time he told Ripley that he intended to carry out the 
curved jetty plan recommended by him and as soon as he 
reached Paris he would take up the whole matter with the 
directors of the company. 

This plan it was estimated would effect a savmg of over 
six million dollars. Ripley naturally felt that he had achieved 
a w'onderful victory. Imagine then his disappointment when 
on March -T, 1913, Ripley was advised that his plan had not 
been adopted, because there was no one willing to take the 
responsibility of its adoption. 

Ripley learned afterwards that the real reason was. that 
the officers of the companv did not have the courage to ac- 



J)i:i'Airr.MEXT of LiTEUATruK, SriK.xcE AM) Aims llMi 

knowledge to the bankers furnishing the money, that there 
had been a mistake made in adopting the original plan of two 
jetties and which they had advised the bankers, was the only 
plan that would give assured results and wdiich had been aj)- 
proved by the ablest engineers in the world. Ripley pre- 
dicts that a future generation of engineers will be using the 
single curved jetty for the improvement of ocean Dars where- 
ever it is applicable and wonder why it was not universally 
adopted a generation earlier. 

In June. li)i;5. the University of Michigan con.'erred upon 
Ripley the degree of Dr. of Engineering and in ^^larch. IDIO, 
he was made a member of Tau Beta Pi. 

Having finished his work in Brazil, Ripley returned to the 
Ignited vStates in May. 1I»1:^, and located in Detroit, wdiero he 
now resides at 223(i Cadillac Ave., with his daughter Loraine 
and son Racine. His dear wife departed this life on July 13, 
1019, at the age of 6T. His son Herbert is with the Chicago 
Sanitary District as Asst. Engineer. Rirch is Asst. Credit 
Manager of the American Laundry ^lachinery Company of 
Cincinnati, Ohio and Racine is salesman for Manning Maxwell 
8z Moore Inc. of New York. 

DR. WILLIAM HENRY SCHOCK, B. S., M. D. 
Born near Easton, Northampton Co., Pa., January 21, 1846. 

Address: Richfield, Sevier Co., Utah. 

From 1903 I continued at the ranch at Plateau, Utah, until 
1908, when having disposed of it, I made my headquarters 
at Richfield, Sevier Co., but during the summer 1 have spent 
a considerable part of the time in the mountains. I have kept 
out of active practice in town, but have been reasonably busy 



20(1 ('lass of 70, Univeusitv uf Michigan 

with office and mail prescribing for those who have got used 
to my wa}s in the last 37 years. 

Events jogged along evenly until a trip to California and 
Oregon in HMO, and a further even jogging until the reunion 
of '70 last June. This being my first \'isit since 1870, the 
change in the L'ni\ersity was certainly noticeable, but on the 
surface the things that most ap])eale(l to me as ])ractical gains 
were tin- Michigan I nion and the gymnasium. 

A hap])ening somewhat over two years since brought in its 
train some ideas of nuich interest to me, though I ha\e not 
come to an}' definite decision as to their general practical 
value. Their \-alue to me is marked and midoubtecl. 

Over two years ago, 1 corralled a small bunch of horses at 
Coyoto. 70 miles south, tying my riding animal. Maj., inside. 
One of the bunch getting in ^faj.'s \'iciuity, he ])acked up sud- 
denly and kicked. The horse got out of the way, but I was 
in it, petting a ])acer with mv back tov^ards what was doing. 
Maj.'s hoofs landed on m_\- hij) pockets as nicely as I could 
have placed them, and I was just near enough so that he lifted 
me off my feet, seiU me headlong and T seetned to land my 
whole weight on m\' left cheek bone. When healed, the 
muscles were tied down by scar tissue, and the irritation of 
the injury was withont doubt the cause of an attack of acute 
diabetes in Feb. 1 !)!!». 

For lack of digestix'c tone, a marked symptom, \ began 
systematic exercise, which had as efifect the nuissaging of the 
digestive organs and strengthening the abdominal walls. In 
ten days there was a decided digestitve gain, and I could sense 
plainly the tensed condition of the abdominal muscles. My 
attention was some way called to my breathing, and I found 
the first inspiration fairl\' full as to chest expansion, and more 
full as to contraction of diai)hragm, owing, perhaps, to op- 



L)epakt:\[kxt of LiTEKATrRE. Science and Arts -01 

position to expansion of tlic tensed abdominal walls. On the 
relaxing- of the diaphragm I could sense distinctly that the 
abdominal muscles contracted, thus taking" part in expiration. 

This alternate reaction of diaphragm and abdominal mus- 
cles was in action the first resjMration I noticed, and the same 
full, measured, reactive, entirely involuntary breathing has 
continued without cessation until the present time. 1 have 
watched hundreds of times and have not once caught myself 
taking- the shallow respirations that were the rule, sitting 
quietly, before. I had, too, been practicing deep breathing 
for months, when 1 could think of it. but with no indication 
of the formation of a deep breathing- habit. 

I continued the systematic exercise, and with diet and the 
indicated remedies, I improved from the start, though none 
of the physicians I consulted at the begining- gave me any 
encouragement. 

The result: Better digestive tone than for all the years 
since the army diet (we had company cooks detailed from 
the ranks) and the result of an attack of malarial typhoid left 
me w^ith chronically impaired digestion, in 18(54. A further 
gain ; the tensed muscles and rhythmical contraction has done 
away with the tendency to abdominal congestion, has brought 
about equalized circulation, with greatly lessened liability to 
take cold. 

I count myself feeling ten to twenty years younger than be- 
fore the attack, and I bear no gruge to Afaj. for the kicking; 
I evidentlv needed the jolt. I was able to make a two months' 
600-mile buckboard trip to the Colorado River, starting late 
in last November, camping out wdien necessary, and traveling 
or working every day. At one part of the trip we had to 
pack out twelve to fifteen miles, leading our pack animals. 
(Maj. was one of them) a good part of the way. over mesas 



202 Class of TO, r.xivEKsrrv of .Michigan 

and crossing half a dozen box canons at just the right point. 

The idea of a continued, invohintary, reactive, deep breath- 
ing has become ahnost an obsession. Taking into account 
the mechanism of resi)iration : the countle-s thousands of air 
cells, each with an open avenue to the air piled miles high, 
the blood current coming, to be purified, approximately 
equally to the network of capillaries surrounding each cell; 
nature surely intended that we should lireathe deeply. 

Everyone has noticed the respiration of domestic animals 
after exertion; the marked contraction of the flank muscles 
each breathe; their respiration is reactive, why not ours? The 
almost universal shallow respiration is certainly abnormal, 
the habit is one of the penalties we pay for our perfected civ- 
ilization. 

• Unused, weakened lung tissue, too, is one of the factors that 
place pneumonia and tuberculosis at the head of the luortality 
list. 

■ How to break the habit ! Those who have attempted to do 
so bv occasional voluntary deep breathing have found it a 
verv unsatisfactory process as to the establishment of an in- 
voluntary deep breathing habit. 

Is there a shorter way? McCond). of the Emanuel Move- 
ment, in "The Power of Self-Suggestion," states that habits 
have been broken by suggestion to the subconscious when it 
is taking full control of the life processes, when the patient 
has fallen half asleep. 

At the onset of my attack and for sometime I was much 
interested. The trouble and my methods of relief were on my 
mind the last thing at night and the first on awakening. Does 
self-suggestion solve the question? T do not remember as to 
a definitelv willed self-suggestion, nor do I know wdien the 
reactive breathing habit was established. It was there when 



Department of Liteuatiue, Science and Arts 203 

my attention first happened to be called to it. and it has been 
continvious since. If the habit can be generally developed, it 
will be well worth while. Can it be done? Who knows? 

Yonrs, 

W. H. SCHOCK. 

The boys were delighted to see Mr. Schock at Ann Arbor 
last June. He called on our Classmate Mickle in Kansas City, 
Mo., on his return home and had a pleasant visit with him. 

WALTER BARLOW STEVENS, A. M., LL. D. 
Born at Meriden, Conn., July 25, 1848. 

Address: Three Mile Farm, Burdick, Kan. 

Mr. Stevens modestly speaks of his distinguished career as 
follows : 

The vista of fifty years backward impresses me with the 
influence of my classmates upon me. Realization of this has 
grown strong in the recent years. When I entered the uni- 
versity the idea of a newspaper career hadn't entered my 
mind. Nor had the thought of making books on historical and 
biographical lines. In fact, plans beyond the four years at 
Ann Arbor were chaotic. I went to college because my father 
had done so before me and because my mother believed 
strongly in higher education and because I wanted to keep 
on when the end of the high school course came. 

In Sophomore year the class of "TO published the Oracle. 
The editors gave place to something I had written. A hith- 
erto undiscovered germ became active. I had entered the uni- 
versity staggering under "conditions" because of urter unpre- 
paredness. Late in the four years my classmates put me on 



•JOI ( 'l.ASS Ol' 7(>, I ' M\ I'.KSII \ (•!• .M U'lllCAN 



llic f(|i|i)ii;il si. ill III llu' iiiiix iTsil \ peril xlic.il. Tliis Imuii'lil 
iiic Icii ;i scliiMil \r;ii iii rliisc ;issi Ki;i I i( m Willi l,ii\fll, I'Iriii 
iii,L; ami Mosi's, l(i wln'iii I owr iiiiuli \'>v wlial caiiic allrr- 
\\ai(K. Tlir Miicll 111 llii' ink and llic laltlc nl llic |)IH'.-.S0S 
llioM' a I Ici 111 M uiN ill r.cal's iniiiliiiL; Ihhisi' were iiici'iisc and 
iiiusii- 111 inc. And llirii, |ii add lii llic ini|)cliis liiward whal 
was III l>c iii\ Inlnrc, cainc llic (liuliim in scninr \ car as class 
liislin'iaii. Si > \i'ii sit wlial I owe lo iiiv classnialcs. Tlu'St' 
disl iiicl n iii^ al college, as il sccins li> inc luiw, were cnlii'idy 
iiiisi iiil;1iI I»\ inc. I was ncviT a pi ilil ician. I was iiol a caii- 
didalc liir (dass IhiiiiUs, in an\ at'li\c sense, Inil I Imik llie 
ael inn i d I lie class i;ialid'nlly . 

'riicic were ullicr iMicii iiisl aiR-cs wliicli make lliis aidiiiii of 
llic class and ils inlliu'iicc ii|iiin iii\ I'lilnre sland mil llu' mure 
si,L',iiilicaiil l\ . A lew wi'cks liclnic i' radnal ii m riiilessnr 
Moses (.'oil dA lei- invilcd me |o call al his house. dMic pro- 
lessor canu' lo lis, \ on i iincndni'. in Sophonioic \i'ar. \\v 
inatiL;nialcil llic ciisloiii id Suphiniiore exhihil ii mis, llirec (d 
whiidi were planned with a do/en or sd o| mir cdass as speak 
CIS. \l lli.il lime I was -till woikiiiL; oil' those pesi i fi'miis 
eondilions and did not make siicli im piessii iii on ihr prolessor 
as lo he i-oiisiiU'icd cliL^ihlc lor selcclioii as one ol llu' fiflN' or 
si\l\' speakers. I'.iit ihe cdass had idecled nu' 1 rc.isiiriM' and it 
devoUcd upon iiic to i.-ollecl Ironi in\ cla-smaU's the dollar 
per to iiu'ct till' I'Xpcnscs ol" each cxhihition. I did il, hiil ihc 
jnh oMi^hl to lia\c I'osl nu' .ill cl.iss popiilarily for the rest n\ 
till' eourse. ddu' iiiomw cime easily for the first e\hihition. 
which w.is a no\elt\ ; not so fn-clx- for the si-eond. .\nd wIumi 
it came time to coMccI the tax for llu' third and last cxliihi 
lion. I hail to stand at llu- dour and hone the ileliinpieiil . 
ramp.iu, 1 think he was, made an aiiix'.alini; talk lo help me 
out. 



I>i:i' viri \i i:\ I oi l.ri i:itAi riti;, S<'ii;.\('i; and Ains L'or» 

"I'fllows," lie said, "licic's Su-vciis, wli't lia n't Ikcii mh the 
list of speakers for aii\' one of lliese e -.liiLit ions, (iMin;- In , Ix- ,t 
1o raise llie money foi ihc (i.-,| ^i ilieni. \\'<' on['Ji1n'l lo 
make it lianl foi- liini," or words to that effect. 

Well, I was more lurlnnale wlnn it (ame to ihe se|c(tions 
\>y llie faenlty of ,|)e;il:er-, for jnnior exinlnl ion and ('oni 
nien( rmnii . I'.ni |||., c cxpci lenecs i,n llie losirnm of tlie 
Melhodr.l ihunli didn't iiis|(iie iin- with ;i rjihi toward any 
one of the t.ill: III!', professions. I hadn't the jc.T-t lif.iii!' foi 
law or medieiiic or tea(liin^. Any inelinalion I iierhaps 
ou;.dit to ha\e had lor iiiv father"-, pioie' moii, tin- mini-.lry, 
was ahseiit. 'I heri- was no < ;ill that I e(»iild di .cover. h<iir 
nalisni, llianks to what my ( lassmale- had done m nial:iii!' me 
one of the e(|itorial stall of the nniversily |)<-riodical, was 
hec koniii;.', and I was lookinj^', foi' the line of least resistancL'' 
lo hre;ik in when I 'rofissor Tyler loof: the interest in my 
fnliire to invite mr to hi^ lioii-.e. Half an hour, ])irha|*s it 
was lonj.^er, he t;ill:e(l lo nii- ahoiil my plans and hope-.. Ills 
advice was as stroi);^ as he conid inal:e il against my clioice, 
lie had tried journalism and had ( oine hack to teachii^',. lie 
cmphasi/.ed the iinsal isfactoiy condilions of news|)a|)i-r life 
then pre vail iiij.^'. Me predicted disa|j)joiiit iiieiit for me even i) 
there was some measure of success. And heivveen tin- sen 
tences I seemed to ^,el the impie- -ion that the professor did 
not believe I would succeed. I ndonhtedly I'rofcssor Tyler 
was sinct-re ; his inlercsl in my welfare was genuine and 
prompted hy real kindne-s. lie he^aii hy sayin;.^ lie under 
stood I was thinking, of a new-.paper careir and that he fell 
he would like to talk with me ahont il. Then followed the 
earnest conversation, vvhich perlia|*s oiij^hl to have checked 
the shove toward journalism which the class had jL^iven iiw., 
hut it didn't. 



LMX; Class ov "K/. rxivKusiTY of .Miciiioax 

A few months ago the head of an cckicational histitution 
wrote to me asking" for my experience on what had been of 
most influence in determining my career. Had it been teach- 
ers, or books, or schoohnates? Looking bacivward, the 
thoughts given expression above came to me. And with a 
feeHng of gratitude to' my class, which is stronger than ever 
now, I liave sft them down. 

Two wrecks after graduation I was getting my tryout on a 
St. Louis newspa])er. Connection in various capacities with 
the press was continuous for thirty years and more. It in- 
chided seventeen years as a Washington correspondent, a 
term as president of The Gridiron Clul). travel in many parts 
of Xorth and Central America and a ,-hort experience as a 
war corespondent. Then came unsought election to the sec- 
retaryship of the World's Fair at St. Louis, which position I 
was holding wlien our previous class history closed in 1903. 

To the duties of secretaryship were added those of director 
of exploitation, chief of press and publicity and superior 
juror. — making me a kind of exposition Pooh Bah before the 
end. 

Two series of travel letters written for the Globe-Demo- 
crat by me had been reprinted in book form before IDni. The 
World's Fair connection led to magazine writing and more 
book work. Instead of getting back to the daily newspaper 
as a regular vocation when the W'orld's Fair ended, I was, 
without mv seeking, kept busy with special articles, book- 
making and a variety of secretary-hips. The last included 
s cretarvship of the National Prosperity Association, organ- 
ized to pull the country out of the financial depression of 
190T. Another executive secretaryship was that of the 
Fourth American I'eace Congress. \\'hich seemed, in 1012, a 
lonr^ step toward world p'^ace and which elicited from Kaiser 



DeI'AUT.MKXT of LlTEKATlKE^ kSCIENCE AND ARTS 207 

William a most favorable expression of his alleged purposes. 
A delegation went from the congress to Berlin and received 
from the Kaiser his avowal of determination to avoid war. 

Secretaryship of the City Plan Commission of St. Louis in- 
cluded several years in the work of material betterment of my 
adopted city. This position was given up in 191G. The Kan- 
sas farm, mentioned in a former class history, lured and be- 
came my summer home. 

The books, title pages of which bear my name, are chictly 
of local character. They include a "History of St. Louis," of 
which two editions were issued ; a "History of Missouri" in 
two volumes; a "Life of Grant in St. Louis"; "Recollections 
of Lincoln," gathered in years of newspaper work ; "The 
Brown-Reynolds Duel"; "A Trip to Panama." several biog- 
raphies, and so on ; altogether between twenty and thirty 
books. The semi-centennial of the Class of '70 finds me read- 
ing proof and putting the finishing touches to a so-called 
"Centennial History of Missouri" in two volumes of 1,000 
pages each. This making of books has come to me without 
seeking on my part. I seem to have drifted into it through 
the initiative of those who have known me long, and who, 
like my classmates, discovered something which I did not 
know was in me until I was tried out. 

Foreign governments have their own ways of demonstrat- 
ing appreciation for service, ways which previous to the 
world war were not highly regarded by American democracy. 
Belgium bestowed upon me, with royal diploma and decora- 
tion, the Order of Chevalier of Leopold ; Italy conferred the 
Order of Knight of the Crown ; China, one of the higher 
classes of the Dougle Dragon ; Japan, the Order of the Rising 
Sun ; Germany, the Red Eagle ; France, Ofiicier de ITnstruc- 
lion Publique ; the Philippine government, the Medal of 



208 Class of 'TO, rxivKusiTY of MiciiiGAN 

Honor. These decorations came one after the other from 
1!)()4 to 1!)10. prompted \)y the World's Fair relationships. 

In 1908, Washington University conferred the degree of 
LL. D., which was the more highly appreciated for the words 
of Chancellor Frederic A. Ilall regarding my newspaper ca- 
reer. 

This semi-centennial year of the class finds me serving my 
fourth year as president of the State Historical Society of 
Missouri, at the same time holding the position of secretary 
of the Louisiana l*urchase Historical Association, the out- 
growth of the AA'orld's Fair of 1904. More calls for writing 
come than can be met. Classmates may see to what that col- 
lege journalism and that class history have led. My only 
children are books. I am of Connecticut birth ; my wife, born 
Sarah Rebecca Thompson, is of an old South Carolina family, 
daughter of a Confederate soldier. The family relations are 
such as to discourage undue partisanship in politics. Inherent 
love for the soil makes the months on the farm of continuous 
fascination. The writing jobs and winter travel in the South 
lend varietv. And so the "borrowed time" passes. 

Mr. Stevens, under all circumstances, has ever been loyal 
to the Class of 'TO, sacrificing himself for its best interests 
and promoting its good reputation. It will be remembered 
that the class arranged for a meeting place and headquarters 
in the Michigan Building on the fair grounds at St. Louis 
during the \\ orld's Fair, and those wdio were there on June 
28, 1904, were agreeabh' surprised to receive the following 
in\'itation: 



Depaut.ment of Literature, Science and Arts 209 

Universal Exposition 

St. Louis U. S. A. 1904 

Administration Building 

June 28, 1904 

To the Class of 'TO : 

Members of the Class of 'TO, University of Michigan, with 
their wives, sons and daughters, are invited to meet on the 
2nd floor of the West Pavilion at 5 :30 P. M., June 28th, for 
a class reunion. Dinner will be served at 6 :00 P. M. The 
West Pavilion is within three minutes' walk of the Michigan 
Building. 

Very truly yours, 

WALTER B. STEVENS. 

Twenty-three persons responded, and it is needless to say 
that we received a most cordial greeting and were sumptu- 
ously treated. Those present were : Bradley, Darrow, Moore, 
Bowman, Baldwin, Allyn, Fearon, Wells, Le Fevre, Price 
Stevens, Carter and members of their families. 

William Marion Reedy, in The Mirror, speaking of Mr. 
Stevens as a newspaper man, said in 1908: 

"One of the world's greatest newspaper men was and is 
Walter B. Stevens. He ranks with the great reporters of the 
past, McGahan, 'Bull Run' Russell. Amos Cummings, Julian 
Ralph, Frank R. O'Xeil. Of them all none had the flair for 
news better developed, none had more of the genius for inspir- 
ing confidence in men with news to give. 'Steve' never be- 
trayed a confidence and never faked a line for a newspaper. 
He was and is a fiend for facts and he arranges them without 
ornamentation in the most efifective fashion. As a reporter 
on the old St. Louis Times, in the days when authorities sup- 
pressed news, he was the despair of the police. He always 



210 Class of 'KK r.xivKKsriv of .Micjikjax 

got his paper the news that the poHce most especially desired 
it should not met. As Washington correspondent of the 
Globe-Democrat for many years he was at the head of the 
profession. He never indulged in windy speculation as to 
events. He wrote the actual news and indicated the course 
of afifairs with accuracy because his information always came 
from the men who WvTc making the news. Never had he to 
back water. His work was absolutely passionless and un- 
prejudiced and yet his very simplicity gave to what he wrote 
a satisfying sense that the reader had the truth. He had a 
style that was lucid, but not dry. He handled facts with an 
exquisite sense of their proper relation to one another and 
this gave the work of his pen a force and a charm, too, that no 
reader could deny. He never wrote a line too much about 
anything. \\'hen he had done with a story there was nothing 
more to tell and nothing materially pertinent had been left 
out. He described men and things with the clearness of a 
photographic plate, and curiously the reader saw those men 
and things with a clear perception that in the very arrange- 
ment of what separately might be dry and bald details there 
was an implied and strongly suggested anah'sis worth more 
than all the pretentious 'studies" of later star journalists. He 
rarely used a figure of speech. He never put himself in evi- 
dence in an article, yet his aloofness gave the article the more 
weight. It was said of 'Steve' that he coidd ride through a 
countv on a fast train and write seven columns of interesting 
stufif about it. He could make anything interesting, a trade 
report, a real estate bulletin, a bunch of statistics. He wrote 
up the Ozark region in Missouri in a way that added millions 
to its values, and this without a line of 'fine writing,' with 
nothing but facts keenly observed and co-related with mar- 
velous skill. I've seen him at the head of a dozen men 'doing' 



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a national convention, before the proceedings became routine, 
come in at night with more of the news of what had been 
done, was doing and would be done than all the other report- 
ers put together. He could see more of the right men on a 
given subject in less time than a whole staff of writers now 
working with phones on their desks. His sources of informa- 
tion were mysterious. No one ever saw him with anybody. 
No one could follow him. How hi> facts came to him was a 
puzzle. Yet he never moved furtively. No one ever saw him 
rattled or piqued or in a hurry. Xo one ever heard his voice 
raised above a thin, clear monotone. He operated without 
haste and without rest, almost always with a smile. He seems 
made to mingle inconspicuously in crowds, with his almost 
colorless grayness of tout ensemble. He is never in the lime- 
light. So when he was Secretary of the A\'orld's Fair, he did 
not change a particle. He was always working noiselessly, 
unceasingly, agreeable to everybody, never rushed for time, 
never annoyed, suffering fools gladly, with a quiet gray smile. 
He seemed to know, to see, to do, everything. He was a giant 
man-of-all-work, ever ready for more ; seemingly not only a 
perfect machine for order and system, but at the same time 
carrying everything in his head and ready in response to 
myriad questions. He was never tired. The W^irld's Fair 
publicity was in his hands. It was handled in a new way. 
There were no circus poster methods, nn fulgurous proclama- 
tions, no exaggerations. The literature that went out was 
fact-y, simple, clear, unbumptious. Those who believed in 
brummagem broadsides and highfalutin' flubdub thought the 
Fair wasn't advertised. They were mistaken. It was adver- 
tised differently from others, and it won its visitors on the 
substance and solidity of the Stevens method. He wa^-n't 
playing for 'Pikers,' but for people who wanted to get some- 



212 Class of '70, University of Michigan 

thing, more than pleasure out of the exposition. This retiring 
man was a pervasive force in the Fair, hardly second to Presi- 
dent Francis or Treasurer Thompson. He had nothing to 
say except things pertinent. He was ready to do anything 
that didn't fall within the scope of some other man's duties. 
When anyone shirked, 'Steve' was there to take hold. And 
doing it all as easily and smoothly and modestly as if it were 
nothing, and never making an enemy. There he was — a great 
force, and yet with something curiously impersonal in his 
foice. lie exerted his force with such a perfect adjustment 
and distribution to his varying purpose that everybody yielded 
to it with something like our unconsciousness of the forces 
of gravitation and atmospheric pressure. The silent man was 
back of the reason of all the din and display of the world's 
rendezvous in 1901. And now he bends his powers in boost- 
ing the town in articles reminiscent or indicative of lines of 
future ]:)rogress, celebrating commercial opportunity and rev- 
eling in such data of adxancL-ment as are poetry to the 'Big 
Cinch.' There never was a better example of 'power through 
repose.' 

Walter Stevens is a gentle man. He is a moderate man. 
He has no high lights, no dark shadows. His manner is that 
of the ascetic, but with the true ascetic's cheerfulness. He 
is most human in the most distinguishing mark of man — 
laughter. One might deny him imagination, but wrongly. 
He has the higher imagination, like an astronomer. He can 
gather and put together facts in a way to arouse your imag- 
ination, and set it working for him. He can assemble dry 
things and give them juice, make dry bones live. He has the 
ardor of the scientist in searching out facts. He lives in an 
atmosphere, self-created, of grey and seemingly monotonous 
quiescence, but out of it he works in ways that surcharge the 



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dynamic forces of others. His ways are those of truth and 
equanimit}-, and teniperateness, without high colors, shrill 
tones or any markedncss save this lack of mark. His passions 
and affections are sidodued to his work. He -moves about in 
a world well realized, l)ut in a way not to attract observation. 
He is patient and persistent, lacking- fume and fretfulness. He 
works without talk, and he works at anything that helps. He 
is still, but not cold. He wins people in such a way that they 
really don't know, Ijecause he doesn't seem to care, how much 
they like him, how wholly they trust in his rightness, how 
fine are the qualities that exist under his reserve. He is 'all 
there' in all substantialities of character, but without a strain 
of egotism and without a single yearning for 'fame.' He lives 
for the work there is to do. He has no causes to 'enthuse' 
for. He is aloof from faction. He is friendlier with all than 
with a few. St. Louis has no one like him, no one so widely 
yet so little known, no one who has done so much for the city 
with so little approval. This grey man in his neutral grey 
atmosphere is, potently, a factor in all the splendor of material 
prestige that the city has." 

Chancellor Frederic A. Hall, dean of the faculty of Wash- 
ton University, in conferring the degree of Doctor of Laws 
on Mr. Stevens, said : 

"This gentleman has had an apprecial)le influence in mold- 
ing the public press through a long life devoted to the collec- 
tion and dissemination of current news and to the diffusion 
of wisely considered literary articles. He is one of those 
whose saneness of judgment and clear perception of the val- 
uable has had a good influence in raising the moral tone of 
the daily press. He is one of that gallant company which has 
brought journalism to a high state of perfection. The chaste- 
ness of his language, his high ideals, and his felicity and facil- 



1M4 Class of '70, r.\ivi:usiTV of Michk.ax 

ity in expression have called to hini the approving attention 
of men over a wide territor3\" 

LEONARD EMIAH STOCKING, Ph. B., M. D. 
Born at Collinsville, N. Y., December 2, 1846. 

Address: Agnevvs, California. 

State Hospital, Agnew, Cal.. June 6, 1905. 

]\Iy Dear Carter : 

I am in receipt of your circular letter, and, more recently, 
of your postal card in regard to the re-union of old 'TO. It 
grieves me more than 1 can tell that I shall not be able on that 
occasion to once more meet face to face the "boys" still re- 
maining of '<0, and, with hearty greeting and glad handshake, 
again live over the old days so dear to us all. 

One of the greenest spots and dearest memories in my life 
since we left our Alma Mater is the re-union of 'DO, the only 
one I have ever been able to attend. I envy our "boys" who 
have been able to meet oftener and who live nearer and can 
now meet again. I am compelled to be here on June 15th, and 
again on the 2()th, which will render it impossible for me to 
go east this month. 

Though I shall be a long ways from you in miles, I shall 
be very near to you on that occasion in thought and spirit. 
I wish to say again, as I have said before, I remember as my 
dearest friends, the boys of 'TO and never have any ties out- 
side of my family been so dear to me as those of 'TO. 

Please extend, dear Carter, to the "boys" present, my cor- 
dial greeting and my deepest regret that I am not able to 
be with them, join in accepting lieman's and Brown's hospi- 
tality, and participate in all that a re-union of 'TO means. Ask 



Dki'akt.mk.nt oi- Lii kuatiki:, Sciknck and Arts 215 

the "boys," as they sing" the old souses, recount the old exper- 
iences, tell how the world has used them, and ij;ive expression 
to still further hopes and aspirations, not to forti,et "vStock." 

I suppose each one will he called upon to give an account 
of himself, and. perhaps, it will l)e ])roper for me to say in 
regard to my own self that since I last met with the "boys" in 
'90, while the days have been strenuous, the world has used 
me well. I still have a happy family of my wife and daugh- 
ter, and my own health has continued good and I am well, 
strong and vigorous. Since '!)(), I have lived in California, the 
land of sunshine and flowers and of all that makes life worth 
living, where all of you ought to spend the remainder of your 
lives and your declining" years. I have been connected with 
this, the Agnews State Hospital, the past twelve years and 
an"! its chief medical and executive officer. I enjoy my pro- 
fessional work and hospital service. 

In closing". 1 wish to extend a most hearty invitation to 
every 'TO boy to become the guest of myself and I'amily when- 
ever possible. The latch string has never ceased to be out 
for 'TO and never will as long as 1 live. A \dsit from any mem- 
ber of 'TO does me a favor and gives me ])leasure. 

God bless 3'ou boys, may you have a royal good time at 
this re-union, continue to li\^e pros])erous and ha]:)py and re- 
turn to Alma Mater for n"iany another meeting. I shall li\-e 
in hopes that 1 may be actually with you next time, as I am 
now in spirit. 

Fraternall}' and sincerely yours, 

STOCKING. 



21G Class of "TO, rxivEusiTV of Michigan 

Agnew, Cal., June !>, l!)(>b'. 
My Dear Carter : 

Because 1 have not answered your very kind letter of May 
6th earher, does not mean that I (Hd not appreciate your 
thoughtful incjuir}' after myself and family. You may have 
concluded that the report in the papers announcing the killing 
of myself and family in the eartlu[uake disaster of April ISth 
was correct, inasmuch as I have been so long responding to 
your incjuiry. 

.At the time of the disaster we were in the second story of 
a large four-story brick building, which was completely 
wrecked and crashed down all about us, my daughter's room 
going down under a great tower a moment after she had left 
it. We fortunately escaped, however, with very little per- 
sonal injury, while two physicians and 110 other people were 
killed. You can easily understand why T have not written 
you sooner when T tell you that all the buildings of this Hos- 
pital, which sheltered 1,500 people, were completely wrecked 
in less than half a minute. The responsibility of directing 
everything pertaining to their care has rested upon me. I 
have had temporary buildings planned and constructed and 
have also looked after the matter of obtaining an appropria- 
tion from the Legislature for permanent rebuilding. That I 
have been busy you will understand, and that I have delayed 
in answering your letter, you will excuse. 

It seems that our buildings were among the worst wrecked 
by the earthcpiake ; San Francisco (forty miles away) was 
devasted, as you know, by fire. It is said that 500 blocks 
were burned, the largest fire ever known. The devastation it 
presents cannot be understood without an acquaintance with 
the city before and seeing it now. 



Department of Literature^ Science and Arts 217 

I seldom see any of the boys, except Baldwin, who lives 
only twelve miles from me. and whom I meet occasionally. 
Have not seen or heard from him since the quake, but since 
he lived in a region where it did but little damage, 1 suppose 
that he escaped. It was a pretty lively shake, but I prefer 
California, where there are earthquakes, to your country with 
cyclones and blizzards. 

Am sorry I could not attend the rc-union last summer. I 
know those of you who were there had a most enjoyable time. 
I wish to meet more of the boys of 'TO and have hoped that 
more of them might find their way to this coast and call on 
me. Give my regards to any of the boys you happen to meet 
and tell them I should be glad to extend to them a hearty 
"shake." Come and see me. 

Yours most sincerely, 

LEONARD STOCKLNG. 

Agnew, Cal.. Nov. 26, 1919. 

My Dear Carter : 

I am in receipt of a copy of your letter to the boys in regard 
to a re-union next summer. 

It would please me beyond expression to be there and meet 
such of the boys as are still with us. I am a long ways away, 
and at this time cannot promise more than that I shall make 
an effort. I shall keep it in mind in my planning from now on. 

I do not know how many of our boys are left, but it cer- 
tainly ought to be a great pleasure to those of us that are here 
to meet again on the old stamping grounds. While the Uni- 
versity has changed and we have grown older, I doubt if we 
have any of us changed very much, and I think we would find 
each other the same boys. Gilbert. Dlanchard and Wells, of 



218 Class of 70, University of Michigan 

this coast, have passed. 1 do not know of any remaining" on 
this coast, except there may be Baldwin and Maltman. How 
many are there of ns now? I am so far away that I sehlom 
see one of them. 

^^'ith kind ])ersonal regards to yourself and family, I am 
Cordially and fraternally yours, 

LEONARD STOCKING. 

LUCIUS BURRIE SWIFT, Ph. M., LL. D. 
Born in Yates, Orleans Co., July 31, 1844. 

Address: 71G E. 1-ith St., Indianapolis, Ind. 

His ordinary occupations since 100;) are cpiickly disposed of. 
He has steadily continued the practice of law, being classed 
as a good lawyer with a large and profitable practice. He 
suffered heavy losses in traction ir.\'estments, Imt still has a 
competence for simple living. 

Turning to other activities, he closed the publication of the 
Civil Service Chronicle in 189G, after the defeat of Bryan, 
because his |)rivate affairs required more attention. He also 
felt that the competitive system was so thoroughly estab- 
lished that it could not be overthrown, and that has turned 
out true. He is vice-president of the National Civil Service 
organization and a thorough believer that the sysijui will. yet 
concpier all state, city and county g'overnment. 

His intimate association with Roosevelt, which began in 
1888. continued to the end and is a glorified memory. When 
Roosevelt was President it was Swift's fortune to sit at times 
with hiiu alone on the side porch or in the libiary at Oyster 
Bay or in the A\diite House, and there hear Roosevelt upon 
the more intimate national matters; such, for instance, as 



Depautmext of I.itehatt'UE. Science and Arts 219 

whether to setul the fleet around the Horn. In 1908 Swift 
worked for the nomination and election of Taft, who then 
went over to the Standpatters, and Swift was chairman of 
the Indiana dcleo'ation at the Bull Moose convention, which 
nominated Roosevelt in 1912. He last met Roosevelt in 1918 
at the commencement of Indiana University and saw a broken 
man. After the end came, Mrs. Roos'evelt, writing from 
France, where she had gone alone to Qnentin's grave, closed 
by saying: "He loved you always." 

To Swift the world war in 1914 was the beginning of an 
attempt of the German kaiser to gain the dommation of the 
world ; it was a blow at liberty everywhere, and it was as 
much the fight of America as it was of any other free country. 
Swift urged this view from the first day of the war. In 1915 
he wrote, "Germans in America." setting out the nature of 
the kaiser's government and his object in the war. This was 
written for the benefit of the ninety per cent of Germans in 
America, wdio at first seemed to want the kaiser to win. The 
circulation reached forty thousand copies. 

Having become convinced that Americans did not appre- 
ciate or give weight to the real foundations of their liberty, 
such as trial by jury, habeas corpus and representative gov- 
ernment, as distinguished from kaiserism. he attacked the 
lack of teaching of the stories of those foundations in the 
schools in a paper before the American Historical Society in 
1916. He presented the same subject later before many 
bodies, and finally in the commencement address he delivered 
at Indiana University in 191T. Then the matter was embodied 
in a booklet. "America's Debt to England." He is now en- 
gaged in writing out the stories of the foundations more at 
length in the hope of making a book which young America 
will read. The idea is to compel, not only Americans, but 



220 Class of 'KK I'xiveusity of .Mkmikjan 

imigrants, to realize the tremendous chasm Ijctween govern- 
ment under Anglo-Saxon liberty and every other kind of gov- 
ernment in the world. 

When America finally entered the war, the governor of 
Indiana nominated Swift a member of the district draft board, 
which sat at Indianaindis, and he became its chairman. As a 
Civil War veteran, it gave him immense satisfaction to be 
able to take such an active part, and in the evening, as well 
as in the morning of life, to serve in a mighty struggle for 
liberty. Twice it has been given to him to see his country 
put forth her mightiest efforts, and twice he has seen her 
arnn' march home with victory perched upc^in the banner. 

This has been Swift's whole life since 191o, when we speak 
of living. He is now President of the TJoard of Sanitary Com- 
missioners of Indianapolis, which is building a sewage dis- 
posal plant for the city. He has not sought after honors, but 
wdien his Alma Mater in 1010 conferred u])on him the degree 
of Doctor of Laws, he received and treasures it with the 
deepest gratitude. 

RUFUS PIILDRETH THAYER, A. M., LL. D. 

Born at Northville, Wayne Co., Mich., June 29, 18i9— Died 

July 12, 1917. 

Class Letter. 

Washington, D. C, February 2Gth, 18T5. 
Old Pals: 

Carter, having robbed the files of the Dead Letter Office 
and sent on the spoils to Fleming, with urgent request that 
all the boys in W.. without reference to age or sex, shouUl 
add something thereto. I present herewith what little respect 



Dei'autmkxt of J.riKUA'riui:^ Sciknck and Arts -iM 

I have left for the old class. 1 howl for the "constitution as 
it was." Seventy, as she used to he l)ef()re any of her mem- 
bers laid himself liable to the i)ains of paternity or divorce, 
comparint;- notes with Fleniin,^-, Adams, liovvc, Meyendortf 
and Maker (who are novv in W'.), I am sh(»eked by the alarm- 
ing exhibit of oxer half of the old boys caus^ht in that noose, 
the torments of whicli are so heartrendint; that the tender- 
hearted l>um])us spares us the narration of his ex])erience. 
To those who are left imtied my heart warms, iteming is 
yet strong in the faith, though 1 fear a \-'> niontlis' jaunt in 
Europe has somewhat disfigured that fancy moral character 
of which you know he used to be su proud. He manifests 
occasionally a little weakness on the woman question, which 
is almost my only source of sorrow, but I am laboring with 
him with all the ferxor of one whose heart is in the cause. 
Adams and xMichael and llowe arc- moxing about among the 
girls and really cause me a great deal of anxiety, but i'.aker is 
lost; has merged himself in tlie mob and has entered upon the 
period of "coverture." I hope it is unnecessary for me to say 
that I am not in that hue of promotion, but shall add my 
physical aud moral ( ?) weight to that of the brave minority. 
We are strong in the justice of our cause. As to personal his- 
tory, little space will suffice. 

After July of bS7(l, was assistant in the University Library 
for nine months, then was delivered of A. A. and was in the 
Congressional Library for three months, since which have had 
a clerkship in the Treasury l)e])artment. Have taken a two 
years' course in the Law .School of Cohunbian I'nivei'sity, 
admitted to the bar before graduation, and am now law clerk 
of the office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury and 
member of the law firm of "Amies & Thayer." Thive seen a 
great deal of cussedness since arriving in Washington, but 



222 Class of 'KK rMVERSiTY of Michigan 

we six "seventy" men are doinf;' what we can ''to save the 
country." 

With a hearty shake to all and the warmest wishes. 

RUFUS H. THAYER. 

Early in December, liHiS, President Roosevelt appointed 
Rufus H. Thayer, of Washington. D. C, as judge of the 
United States Court at Shanghai. China. Mr. Thayer was 
not an applicant for the position and his selection came, there- 
fore, as a very pleasant surprise to him. He was a lawyer of 
acknowledged ability and fitness for the position. He was 
a member of the bar of the Supreme Court of the United 
States, and had l)een for several years a member of the school 
board and one of the trustees of the Public Library and sec- 
retary of the board ; also a member and ex-president of the 
Cosmos Club, and a member also of the Chevy Chase and the 
University Clubs. 

Montrose, X. Y., Jan.- 13, 190.5. — ^Miss Harriet Isabella 
Barnes, daughter of the lion. William P)arnes, of Albany, was 
married at noon today at the Churcli of the Divine Love at 
Montrose-on-the-Hu(lson, by the Rev. Gouverneaur Cruger, 
to Air. Rufus Hildreth Thayer, of Washington, D. C. 

There were present Mr. and Airs. George C. Hollister, of 
Rochester; Mr. Thurlow Weed Panics, of New York; Mr. 
and Mrs. W^illiam Barnes, Jr., of Albany; Mr. and Mrs. Fred- 
erick W. Seward, the Hon. Samuel R. Thayer (formerly 
PTnited States minister at The Hague), of Alinneapolis ; Mr. 
George W. Thayer, of Rochester, and Miss Grace Carter, of 
Cooperstown. 

A romance that began two years ago in Ala-ka thus cul- 
minated. Judge Thayer is a brother of Daniel R. Thayer, of 
Tvlinneapolis, former Minister to Holland, and George W. 



DEPAKTME.XT Ul" LlTEHATUKE, t^ClEXCE AND AUTS 228 

Thayer, of Rochester. He is a ])rominent jurist of Washing- 
ton. 

Mrs. Thayer is a sister of William Barnes, Jr.. chairman of 
the Repnblican State Committee, a granddanghter of Thnr- 
low Weed and danghter of William P.arnes, of Albany. Only 
the families of the bride and bridegroom and the Seward fam- 
ily were present. 

After the ceremony a wedding breakfast was given at the 
mansion of Frederick \\\ Seward, former acting Secretary of 
State nnder Lincoln. Johnson and Hayes, whose magnificent 
estate adjoins the village of Montrose. Judge Thayer and 
Miss Barnes arrived last night and went at once to the Sew- 
ard place, where arrangements had been made for the wed- 
ding which nnites two families that have for three generations 
been life-long friends of the Sewards. 

Judge Thayer arrived in Shanghai. China. Febrnary 24, 
1909, and assumed charge of the United States Court. 

May 15th, 1910. 

My Dear Carter: 

I am very sorry indeed that I shall not be able to be at Ann 
Arbor at our class re-nnion next month. Please give all the 
boys my warm greetings. 

As it is well known to yon. on January 1st, 1909, I was 
appointed Judge of the United States Court for China and 
left for Shanghai, China, late in the same month and arrived 
here the latter part of Febrnary the same year. I have found 
the work of the court exceedingly interesting and agreeable 
in all respects. The law reqnires me to visit, at least once 
annually, three other ports in China, viz. : Canton in South 
China, Tientsin in North China, and Hankow in the interior. 



224 Class of "TO, University of Michigan 

and authorizes the court to hold sessions at any city in China 
when occasion arises where the United States has a consulate. 
Complying- with these provisions, I ha\'e had the opportunity 
of seeing a large part of China during the year and a half I 
have been occupying this office. This adds variety of scene 
and gives opportunity for interesting observations in this 
ancient empire. 

The court was organized only about four years ago and is, 
therefore, in its infancy. The body of law which it applies is 
uncertain and its practice and procedure are as yet only par- 
tially developed. The lawyers of the class will thus under- 
stand that for the present its work is largely constructive. I 
am enjoying it very luuch. 

Two years ago this summer I had a very serious attack of 
appendicitis, sufifering two dangerous operations and spend- 
ing more than six months in recuperation. Prior to this, from 
the date of our graduation, I had enjoyed perfect health. Re- 
covery from these operations was slow necessarily, but I am 
happy to say that I am now nearly, if not quite, as well as 
before that attack. Like other meiubcrs of the class. I assume 
that my youthful ])hysical vigor is not overnuich in evidence. 
However, we may thank God that we have all yei some years 
in which we may reasonably expect to be able to do good 
work, and for }'Ou, my dear Carter, and for all the rest of the 
boys, I heartily wish good health may continue and that you 
are all so placed as to trancjuilly enjoy the remaining years 
of your lives respectively. 

I recall that my dear classmates in tbose old undergraduate 
days dubbed me "Judge." I construed it then as a term of 
partial endearment and valued it accordingly. It stuck to me 
later, and after many years it became at times exceedingly 
embarrassing. It was not until my ajipointment to this office 



Department of Literatfuk, Science and Arts 225 

that I could hear myself addressed as "Judge" without blush- 
ing. Now that I am occupying the judicial office I suffer a 
deeper concern. I am made anxious to fulfill its duties so as 
not to bring disgrace either upon the class or myself. 

It is impossible for me to go home this summer, but I am 
looking forward to a visit either next summer or the follow- 
ing and shall then hope to have the pleasure of meeting some 
of the boys at least. 

With cordial greetings to all, 

Sincerely yours, 

RUFUS H. THAYER. 

The "Cablenews-American," at Manila, P. I., of February 
2nd, 1!)12, contains the following item : 

One of the most distinguished visitors to the Carnival and 
Exposition this year is Judge Rufus Hildreth Thayer, of the 
United States Court for China, who arrived on the Manchu- 
ria, and is the guest of V^ice Governor Newton W. Gilbert, at 
his home on Calle Real, Malate. 

Judge Thayer, whose headquarters are in Shanghai, holds 
court in that city, Canton, Tientsin and several other of the 
larger cities of the empire, and is now on his way to Canton 
via M^anila, where he will hold court. 

At yesterday's session of the Supreme Court, presided over 
by Chief Justice Arellano, with all numbers present, a signal 
honor was conferred upon Judge Thayer by the Chief Justice, 
who invited him to a seat on the bench during the session of 
the court. This is the first time in the history of the Supreme 
Court of the islands that such an invitation has been extended 
to a visiting jurist. Judge Thayer sat to the right of the 
Chief Ju'-'tice and listened with interest to the arguments of 
Attorneys Aitken for the appellant and Ney for the appellee 
in the case of Daywanet vs. Endencia. 



22(1 Class of "TO, 1\\'1VKKsitv of AIichican 

During- his sta}' in the city Judge Thayer will be the recip- 
ient of many attentions, the first of which will be a dinner 
given in his honor at the Army and Xavy Club next Saturday 
night by Justice Jolmson, of the Sujjreme Court, at which 
will ])e ])resent man}- distinguished members of the local 
l)ench and bar. 

In con\'ersation }'esterday w'ith a Cablenews-American re- 
porter, Judge Thayer expressed himself as delighted with 
what he had seen of Manila, and sorry that his visit would 
not be of longer duration. He sails on the Manchuria Sun- 
day morning. 

The following was clipped from the China Press, Shanghai, 
dated May 9, 1912: 

Judge Rufus H. Thayer, of the United States Court for 
China, expects to sail for Dalny on the Japanese steamer Kobe 
Maru next Monday morning early and will visit Mukden and 
Harbin, holding a short term of court at both places. This 
will be the first time since its organization that the United 
States Court for China has visited ]\Ianchuria. 

Afer disposing of the court business at Harbin, the Judge 
will take the Siberian express for London to meet Mrs. 
Thayer. Mrs. Thayer was seriously ill for several months 
before leaving for home a year ago. Her recovery has been 
very slow, said Judge Thayer yesterday, and she is only just 
able to travel to London. It is hoped that a summer's rest in 
England will restore her health so that she may be able to 
return to Shan!.diai. 

Woodstock, X. Y., June 30, 1917. 
(332 State St., Albany, N. Y.) 
My Dear Carter: 

Your announcement of Campl)eirs death is received and re- 
minds me, as it no donbt has you, that the Cnm Reaper is 



Department of LiTEUATrRE^, Science and Arts 227 

at his work industrioush' with our Class. And why not? Cer- 
tainly time is speeding wonderfully and we can no longer con- 
ceal that we are in the old man's class. I drop you a line just 
to assure you that I am still alive. While in fairly good 
health and pretty cheerful, I have no difficulty m furnishing 
evidence of increasing age. My home is now, and will be for 
a few years, at the Albany address as above. The interpolated 
address is my summer home, where I shall be for three or 
four months. I have some judicial work on which I am en- 
gaged at Kingston, a nearby town, and am spending my sum- 
mer in the Catskill, which I find most agreeable. 

I have seen none of the boys recently. I spent a few very 
delightful days with Le Fevre in Peking the year before I 
returned from China, and in 1914 (January), was in N. Y. 
City for a couple of months ; had most delightful visits with 
Tweedy and Noble only a few months before tlieir deaths, 
which were great shocks to me, especially because of my re- 
cent pleasanr and interesting talks with them. They were 
both fine fellows, as you know, and had developed into splen- 
did men. It is too bad that we, who are left, can't meet often 
and exchange reminiscences and views of life, and cheer each 
other up and say "God speed" as we move on down the hill. 

I hope you and Airs. Carter enjoy good health and that life 
is treating you well. Do you come east occasionally? I wish 
vou did and that we might manage to meet some time. With 
very warm regards, 

Sincerely yours, 

RUFUS H. THAYER 

Kingston, N. Y., July 12, 1017.— Rufus Hildreth Thayer, of 
Albany, who was Judge of the United States Court at Shang- 
hai, from 1900 to 1913, and former Judge Advocate General 
of the National Guard of the District of Columbia, died here 



228 Class of 'TO, Uxiveksity of Michigan 

today several hours after he had been stricken with apoplexy. 
He was serving' as a nienil>er of the Schoharie-Shandaken Con- 
demnation Commission under a recent a])pointment. 

Judge Thayer was born at Plymouth, Mich., June 29, 1850, 
the son of Rufus and Hersilora Thayer, who were both of 
New England ancestry. Judge Thayer was graduated from 
the University of Michigan in ISTO, some of his classmates 
being United v^tates Su])reme Court Justice Day, Judge Pen- 
field, former v^olicitor of the State Department; Dr. l>ernard 
Closes, of the University of California, and Alfred Xoble, the 
engineer. 

After graduation. Judge Thayer was aii])ointC(l assi-^tant to 
the Librarian of Congress ; he studied law, and graduated in 
187-i. He was appointed a law clerk in the Treasury Depart- 
ment, where he remained for ten years. He resigned in Cleve- 
land's first administration to practice law in the firm of 
Thaver & Rankin. In December, 1908, he was appointed 
Judge of the I7nited States Court in China by I^resident 
Roosevelt. He retired in December, 1913. 

ALEXANDER THOMSON. B. S.. LL. B. 

Born on Griggsville Prairie, Pike Co., 111., May 2, 1844 — Died 
at Clackmas, Oregon, December 28, 1904. 

Class Letter. 

Clackmas, Oregon. Feb. 16, 1879. 

I have received the Class letter; glad to hear from you all 
once more. Business at once; the summer of 'TO spent on 
farm in Illinois. In the fall I returned to law school at A. A. 
Next summer read in law office of E. Sanford, ]\Iorris, 111. In 
autumn returned to law school again and was graduated and 
admitted to the bar in Detroit. Returned home, found my 



Department of Literature^ ^(texce and Arts 229 

father very sick. I carried on his farm for one year until he 
recovered, and then I got disgusted and tried to run away 
from myself; visited Salt Lake in '73; stood on the walk in 
front of B. Young's residence while others went in and shook 
hands with the old reprobate. For the honor of '70 I would 
not go in. I had taken Greeley's advice to go West. I went 
to Sacramento, remained about ten days, then to San Fran- 
cisco. The (Jrriflame turned her prow proudly to the West, 
and amid the hurrahs of the passengers and the curses of the 
seamen, I took the water destined for Portland, Oregon. 
From that time J became a part of the floating population of 
Oregon. For two years taught school, worked on a farm, had 
an engagement as a comedian, but did not appear in public. 
Believing in the Scriptural assertion, it is not good for man 
to live alone, I looked around me and what did I see? Al- 
mond-eyed China women, orange-colored Americans and 
white women of rare beauty. With all these resources to be 
developed. I deemed to perpetuate the name of we great men 
of '70, and accordingly I had a lady imported from Ann Ar- 
bor, Mich., Sarah J. Almendinger, and was married in Oregon 
City, September 22, LS75. Although I have since had my 
nose broken and my hair has grown thinner on the top of my 
head. I have not yet regretted the step, but ''live subservient 
to the powers that be." Li the classic language of the aborig- 
inees, "Nika iskum renas T llicum (I have one small boy) 
about two years old. As for present positions I take a deal of 
pride in saying I am a Justice of the Peace. Aly wife thinks 
that with all my misfortunes, I am still handsome, that 
nothing can mar my beauty, not even the smallpox. In con- 
clusion there is still a warm S]Wt in my heart for every mem- 
ber of '70. In the short time that I have had the Class letter 
I have lived over again four of the happiest years of my life, 



I'.'td Class ok '"(!■, I'xin I'.usrrv (ti" .Mkmiicax 

and my wife seemed to enjoy it is much 1 did. To poor Hay- 
ward we extend our heartfelt sympathy. His wife and mine 
were schoohiiates. If any of you come west call on the Jus- 
tice, who lives within the sound of the roaring' cataract of the 
\\'illamettc and within .sioht of the snow-clad peak of ]\It. 
Jlood. and share his Ijacon and beans so long as there is a 
rind or a bean left 

REV. ORLANDO LAFAYETTE TINDALL, A. M.. B. D. 
Born at South Grove, DeKalb Co., 111., November 25, 1847. 

Address : Zion City, 111. 

In ISOG I sold my farm of ■y'ii) acres, two and a half miles 
from Lawrence, Kansas, and stock, and moved into Lawrence. 
Engaged in business in a light way, as my health w^as not ver}^ 
good. 

In 18!K) I met Dr. John Alex. Dowie, who was an ex-Cong, 
minister and evangelist from Australia, in Minneapolis, Minn., 
where we were spending a vacation. He was holding what he 
called a Divine Healing mission, as he liad done for a cot:ple 
of years on the Pacific coast ami in some large cities. I be- 
came interested in his work and was associated with him indi- 
rectly for several years by correspondence and some work. 

In ISOG, Feb. 'i"2, he organized The Christian Catholic 
Church in Zion. In 181)7 I was ordained an elder in that 
church, and for one year held a mission in Lawrence, Kan. 

In 1898 we moved to Chicago. Dr. Dowie told me he ex- 
pected to start a college in the near future and wanted me to 
teach Greek among other things. My Greek had surely got- 
ten pretty rusty after -30 years' non-use, or nearly so. He said 
I would have time to study uj) as it might be some time be- 
fore he could open up the college. It proved to be nearly a 



Department of Literattke, Scikxce and Arts 231 

year. I spent the most of this time brushing up on my old 
books. Did some preaching- and mission work there in Chi- 
cago. In 1899, Feb. 11, the college was opened. I was ap- 
pointed principal of the Ministerial Department, and \\\ F. 
Matthews, of 'TU -M. U., who had become a member of the 
church, was made princi])al of the Preparatory Department. 
The college was located on ^^lichigan Ave. and 14th St. the 
first year and then taken across the street to the large Nor- 
wood hotel, which was rented and used for college, and a 
dormitory for students and teachers. The first year Airs. 
Tindall and I had charge of the college Home and boarded 
the teachers. Zion College gave much attention to the study 
of the Bible, making it a text book in all the departments 
along with the other l)ranches of study. There was much 
need of this, as the Bible is tabooed in the public schools, 
especially in Illinois, to her disgrace. 

We continued our work here till October, 1902, when we 
moved to Zion City, 111.. 42 miles north of Chicago, on the lake 
shore, where Dr. Dowie had purchased about ■),0on acres of 
land and built a city, which grew in a few years to 10,000 pop- 
ulation. Here we had a large stone building that cost $150,- 
000. The school increased rapidly. Al)Out 2.000 were regis- 
tered at one time. I taught Greek. Church History. Xew Tes- 
tament Exegesis and some other branches at times ; enjoyed 
my work very much. 

In October, 1903, I accompanied Dr. Dowie. with his ."i.OOO 
host to Xew York on his crusade. He rented Madison Sciuare 
Garden for about 20 days, where he held religious meetings 
from 6:30 A. -M. till 10 o'clock P. AI. almost continuously. 
The members of the host visited the homes and business 
places during the day, selling the papers. "Leaves of Healing," 
and giving out messages and religious tracts. They gave out 



232 Class of '70, University of Michigan 

over a million ])ieces of literature, covered Greater New York 
from house to house twice or more. 

W'iiile here I saw Tweedy, of 'lo. at his office on Pine St. 
Prof. S. R. W'inchell, of 'TO, taught one year in our schools 
in Zion City. After returning from New York, I continued 
teaching until 1!)UG, when I took up ministerial and pastoral 
work and was associate editor on the '/Aon papers, "The 
Leaves of Healing" and "The Theocrat," which has been my 
principal work since that time. 

During the last four years my health has not been very 
rugged ; have had several very severe attacks of different dis- 
eases, bronchitis. Hu., a good deal of head trouble, dizziness, 
etc. Am just recovering from bronchial pneumonia, which 
gave me a close call to settle up my accounts for this old 
world. 

Thanks unto Cod, who had mercy and is giving me good 
hopes of a longer lease of time to do something for the world 
as I may have o])i)ortunity. We. in Zion. give God all the 
glory for our healings, as we have no doctors, nor drugs to 
share the glory. I am now 73 past and feel pretty young and 
am enjoying life first rate. Hope to meet all the "boys" in a 
grand old re-union in the "Better Land." 

O. L. TINDALL. 

Zion, 111., March 31, 1921. 



Department of l.iTEHATrRE, Science and Arts 233 

JAMES FISHER TWEEDY, A. B. 

Born at Milwaukee, Wis., March 20, 1849 — Died in New 
York City, December 21, 1914. 

Class Letter. 

Milwaukee, July 3, 1878. 
Dear Classmates in '70: 

The letters at hand tell me that it is my turn at the yarn. 

The first eight years have been very quiet ones with me. 
After trying railroad surveying for a year I returned to Alma 
]\Iater for more nursing, this time in engineering, btit got so 
deeply involved in Cupid's coils that I did. but poorly at en- 
gineering. Returned to field work in the spring of '7:c? in Wis- 
consin. Married in September, '73, and after a year of wait- 
ing for something to turn up. got on to my feet, though at 
first with trembling step, and have since managed, by beg- 
ging and borrowing, to get some bread for a rapidly increas- 
ing family. Have only three boys and a girl to cry for work, 
and they can fill that bill I can tell you. But come and see 
me, after you're married, for I would not want you to be dis- 
couraged. 

Yours, 

JAS. F. T . 

The Free Press, Milwaukee, Wis., Dec. 22, 1914. contained 
the following: 

James F. Tweedy, aged 6-1 years, formerly a resident of Mil- 
waukee, died at his home in New York yesterday, according 
to a message received by his brother, J. H. Tweedy, Jr., Mar- 
shall street. 

Mr. Tweedy left Milwaukee about twelve years ago. He 
was formerly in the brokerage business here, which vocation 



234 Class of 70, University of .MiciiUiAN 

he followed in New York. He was connected with the firm 
of William Herbert & Co., brokers, at the time of his death. 
He was for several years senior member of the firm of 
Tweedy. Imbrie & Co. 

A wife and four children survive his death. 

Mrs. Alice B. Tweedy, widow, and two of her sons, Arthur 
and James B.. reside at 473 W. 22nd street. New York City. 
Her son, Richard, is married and is an artist, located at 232 
W. 14th street. New York City. Her son, Alfred, is also mar- 
ried and is a lawyer, with an office at 2 Rector street. New 
York City. 

Our classmate had a summer home in New Hampshire, 
where he usually went every summer for recreation. He at 
last succund)ed to an attack of pneumonia. 

PETER VOORHEIS, A. B. 

Born at White Lake, Oakland Co., Mich., September 11. 1843 
—Died at Grand Rapids, Mich., December 17, 1890. 

Class Letter. 

Grand Rapids, Mich., April 15, 1878. 

I, Peter \'"oorheis, of Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michi- 
gan, mindful of the uncertainties of human life, and realizing 
the importance of the Class of 'TO, do hereby give and be- 
queath to my beloved classmates forever, m_y history ("writ- 
ten by the author") since our "Alma Mata" sent us forth into 
the cold world, in manner following: 

First: Class letter just received, and I need not assure 
any man of 'TO that I have read with much interest the letters 
of you whose names commence with the first letters of the 
alphabet, I have been surprised in reaching the letters writ- 



Dki'autmknt of LiTKUATriu:. Science and Arts -35 

ten in 'Tl and '72 to learn that the Class letter had been ex- 
pected by them for a long time, then I presume the English 
language does not contain words adequate to express their 
feelings, had they been obliged to wait as I have done, nearly 
eight long years. 

Some matters which distur])ed them arc now settled ; for 
instance, the matter of Ballenger vs. Winchell having been 
disposed of equitably, rather than in a legal manner, but as 
it seems to me satisfactory to both parties, as each received 
what he would have got at the end of a long-contested suit, 
if he had been successful, which under the circumstances of 
the case he could not have expected. 

After leaving Ann Arbor, I commenced studying law with 
Crofoot & Brewer, of Pontiac. where I remained about one 
year. Then, through the kindness of my Classmate Ripley, 
I received the appointment of U. S. Foreman of harbor im- 
provements at Holland, Mich., for the summer of '71. At- 
tended law lectures at Ann Arbor during the winter of '71 and 
'72. Was examined and admitted to the bar in March, '72. 
Then I came to Grand Rapids, where I have been practicing 
law for the past six years, tAvo years alone, four years with 
my present law partner. 

He continued in the successful practice of his j)rofession 
in Grand Rapids up to the time of his death. 

He was pleading a case for his client at the Grand Rapids, 
Mich., bar in December, 1800, when he suddenly stopped 
talking and fell over on the table in front of him. His wife, 
who happened to be in court at the time, rushed to his aid. 
and found that he was dead. He left three boys who grew 
up bright young men and were doing well in business at last 
account. 



23(> (/LASS OF 7(K rxlVKKSlTV OF MICHIGAN 

The widow died in 1!)(M). Peter Wiorhers vv'as a noble, 
good-natured fellow, lie had a hai)py disposition, always 
readv to greet his friends with a smile and to render any aid 
to the unfortunate needing" assistance. It was pleasant to be 
associated with him. 

WILLIAM JAMES WATERS, C. E. 

Born at Rye, N. Y., September 10, 184L Date and place of 
death unknown. 

Although we have kept up search and inciuiry for Waters 
for many years we have found no trace of him since 18T7. 
when he went away from Columbus, (). Xo reason has been 
discovered for his disappearance. It is supposed that he has 
long since gone over the border to the silent city. Me was of 
a roving disposition, but he had many friends and it is con- 
sidered, that had he remained in the land of the living, his 
whereabouts would have become known long ere this. We 
mourn his loss. 

OLIVER HART WATTLE3, B. S. 

Born in Lapeer County, Mich., January 29, 1850. Lied at 
Lapeer, Mich., March 23, 1911. 

Oliver H. Wattles continued the banking house of J. AI. 
Wattles & Co., at Lapeer. Alich., after the death of his father 
in 1803. Although this business took him to the large cities 
throughout the country, he gave close attention to the bank 
and did not leave it long at any one time. His v.atchful care 
preserved the interests of the bank. Mr. Wattles had many 
wariii friends, lie very seldom attended the class reunions 
at Ann Arbor. 



Department of Liteuatire^ Science and Arts 237 

ALBERT WILLIAM WEISBROD, A. B. 

Born in Oshkosh, Wis., October 4, 1851. — Died in Oshkosh, 
Wis., April 18, 1892. 

Air. W'eisbrod left a very enviable record as a lawyer in the 
state of Wisconsin, he having" resided in the city of Oshkosh 
during' his entire life and was well known throughout the 
state. His services as a lawyer were in great demand. 

CHARLES MANLEY WELLS, M. S. 

Born at Gibson, Susquehanna Co., Pa., October 23, 1842. 
Died at Los Angeles, Cal., February 24, 1905. 

Class Letter. 

Fontiac. Mich.. Jan. 21. 1878. 
Dear Classmates: 

A perusal of the Class Letter shows beyond question that 
the days of gush for "10 have passed and as I do not claim a 
better state of preservation than my average classmate, I will 
straight to business. The last of April preceduig- graduation 
I took local charge of the government harbor works at Muske- 
gon. Mich. This was very soothing to my pocket book. As 
U. S. Asst. Engr. in September. 18T(), White River harbor 
was added to my charge. The winter and spring of 18T0-71 
was passed in Milwaukee in charge of the six harl)ors from 
Muskegon north, a charge which I retained until June, 187T, 
living meanwhile successively in Detroit, Pent Water and 
Muskegon. I should not omit to add as an index of the 
severity of my duties, that during the winter 1871-2 my office 
was stationed at Ann Arbor and I scored a year in the law. 
From October, 1873. until June, 1874, was employed as engi- 



238 Class OF 70, University OF Michigan 

neer to aid in the selection of a townsite and site for a state 
asylnni for the insane. In this connection I visited all the 
considerable towns of Eastern Michigan, some of them many 
times, and as my dnties were systematic, retained my gov- 
ernment position. 

As each town nrgently desired to have the asylum located in 
its vicinity, I found the duty very pleasant, fared well and 
imbibed notions of my own greatness which subsequent ex- 
perience has not verified. June, 18T4, I resigned my U. S. 
position to enter the service of the State of Michigan and take 
charge after erection of the new asylum at IV^ntiac. Mich., 
and nearlv four years later here I am still. The asylum will 
be completed next ]\Iay or June and my duties will cease. My 
wife sits beside me now in my office in the asylum building-. 
■Mv boy is six years old. He missed that cup. We keep 
house and life is (|uietly going on. ATy political principles 
are republican, still I bolted Grant and unlike r')o(lge, failed 
to swallow CTreeley. In religion I may be a Buddist or a 
Brahman. I formulate nothing and cannot tell. Hoping to 
see vou all in Ann Arbor next Jun- I pass this on to Perry 
who lives here. C. M. ^^ . 

3827 Indiana Ave., Chicago. 
August 8th, 1904. 
My Dear Carter: 

The time was last Thursday evenin*';, August 4th. The 
place was the College Inn Restaurant, corner of Washington 
St. and La Salle St. The persons were Dawson, Darrow. 
Mathews, Tindall. W'inchell. Whitman and Wells, i. e., two 
lawyers, two teachers, two preachers and one away from home, 
but all were of 'TO. I talked with several of the boys several 
times, but when Darrow took the bit in his teeth, he drew 



DKI'AUTMKXT of LiTKUATrUE, SCIKNCI-: AM) AUTS 239 

us all together, but so suckleuly in the denouement that Car- 
ter, Wing and other suburban residents could not be gathered 
in and we all mourned thereat. 

Our time was mainly and properly taken in bringing class 
history down to date. The roster was present only in our 
memories, but we hardly missed one of the names that thirty- 
four years ago we each by heart Of the party Mathews 
was the baby and yours truly was patriorch, but neither 
looked nor felt the honor. So far as I know each mend:)er of 
the party reached home unassisted, except by other members. 
\\>lls was detailed to report to our most worthy secretary 
the facts heretofore stated, that history might be recorded as 
made. The wives, on option, remained at home, not wishing 
to turn a class function into a social function. No one of the 
Chicago contingent failed to come. 

Darrow is teaching as of old ; Winchell has still with him 
the lecture bureau and his educational work ; Dawson and 
Whitman are in successful practice of the law ; Mathews is 
struggling" to help others in religious and eduactional work 
and neglecting- himself: Tindall is at Zion City, the educational 
head quarters (both spiritual and secular), of John Alexander 
Dowie : Mathews was then in the same work but fled on the 
announcement that Dowis is the veritable Elijah of old. Phy- 
sically, all. with one exception, are well preserved. Whitman 
has the color, activity and tone of }^outh: Dawson is quiet, 
concise, harmonizing and like Darrow. nerves in perfect 
health and accord. Mathhews is rotund of face and form, 
contented in spiritual truths as he saw them thirty years ago. 
Tindall. whom we expected to see with a flowing beard after 
the manner of his chief, wears instead a silk hat from time 
immemorial, called a plug. He is pleasant, intelligent, de- 
voted to his work and evidentlv contented therein. 



240 Class of '70, UxnEusiTY of Michigan 

I\Iy treatment has been prolonged much beyond expecta- 
tion — the main improvement in the first three weeks. ]\Trs. 
\Wlls came back to me a week ago, and we will break up 
here and go to Michigan, not later than Aug. 15th. We shall 
probably be in Chicago about Nov. 1st, at which time I may 
stay again with the Dr. for a time. If so I hope to see you. 

After meeting" you that evening on the fair grounds I very 
soon got a wheel chair and my trouble was over. 

Mrs. Wells joins me in best regards to ]Mrs. Carter and 
yourself. 

Yours in 'TO, 

C. M. WELLS. 

The funeral of Charles M. Wells, expresident of the Los 
Angeles Chand)cr of Commerce, former president of the Free 
Harbor League and secretary of the California World's Fair 
Commission of 18!):i. who died at his home, Xo. 251.") South 
Main street, early Friday morning, will be held at tl e late 
residence at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon. Rev. Dr. Thom^tson. 
pastor of the Independent Churcli of Christ, ofificiating. In 
arranging the funeral the family has received the assistant of 
a special committee appointed from the Chamber of Commerce 
— President J. O. Loepili, O. T. Johnson, Niles Pease and j. 
Baruch. Officers and members of the chamber will attend the 
services at will. Burial will be made in Rosedale Cemetery. 

Mr. Well's death resulted from rheumatism of the heart; 
he had been a sufferer from muscular rheumatism for years. 
but was not prostrated until two weeks ago. \\'ednesday an<l 
Thursday Mr. Well's condition was so much improved, ap- 
parently, that he was out of bed and about the house. Thurs- 
day evening he retired early. At 2 o'clock Friday morning 
one of his sons, George, went to the father's bedside; he was 



Department of LiTERATrui-:^ Science and Arts 241 

sleeping peacefully. At 6 o'clock the wife entered his cham- 
ber to see if the sick man needed anything, or was in pain ; 
he was dead. 

Mr. Wells leaves a widow and three sons: L..C. Wells, of 
the San Pedro News ; George R. Wells, treasurer of the 
Unique Theater, this city ; and F. B. Wells, an assayer at the 
plant of the Butler's Mining Company, San Salvador, Cent- 
ral America. 

Charles M. Wells was born in Susquehanna county, Penn- 
sylvania, October 23, 1840, where he spent his childhood and 
youth. At the age of 20 he enlisted as a volunteer in the 
Union Army, and served eighteen months, when, his health 
shattered, he was mustered out. He subsequently removed 
to Ann Arbor. Mich., where he became a graduate of the 
Literary Department and of the Law Department of the Uni- 
versity of Micliigan. In 1M70 he made his home in \\^auseon, 
O., where he married. 

Having accumulated a competence in bvisiness, Mr. Wells 
in 186G came to Los Angeles, here to reside until his death. 
He invested to the limit of his means in real estate, and lost 
heavily through the breaking of the boom of the following 
year. He early identified himself with men and projects of 
business importance in the community, and in 1891 was placed 
at the head of the Chamber of Commerce, becoming thus its 
second president in order of election. Mr. \\'ells had the 
honor to be chosen president of the Free Harbor League, by 
whose recommendation to the Rivers and Harbors Committee 
of Congress San Pedro was finally selected in preference to 
Santa Monica for the government harbor and breakwater. 
The secretarvship of the California ^^'orld's Fair Commission 
was another distinction accorded Mr. \\>lls — and one that 



242 Class of '70, Tniveksity of Michigan 

came near costing him his health ; he returned from Chicago 
broken down by hard work. — Los Angeles Daily. 

CHARLES RUDOLPHUS WHITMAN, A. M., LL. B. 

Born at South Bend, Ind., October 4, 1847. — Died at Chicago 
at Chicago Union Hospital, April 2, 192L 

At 14. moved with his parents to Chicago. Graduated from 
L^niversity of Michigan, IS";!), receiving degree of A. B. ; from 
Law Department. IH']',), receiving degree of LL. B. ; and in 
1875, received degree of A. "SI. lie was a member of the Phi 
Delta Phi fraternity. Practiced law in Ypsilanci. Ann Arbor 
and Detroit, Michigan, from 18T3 to 1S!)1), when he moved to 
Chicago, where he was engaged in the active practice of law 
until his death. From 18TG to 'TS he was Circuit Court Com- 
mossioner of Washtenaw County, Michigan ; from 1880 to '81, 
prosecuting attorney of the same county; from 188() to 1891. 
Regent of the University of Michigan; from TSiH to l."I>') 
Railroad Commissioner of the State of Michigan; and from 
1896 to '98, Assistant l^nittd States District Attorney for the 
Southern District of Michigan. 

On September 3, 1912. Mr. Whitman married Alice, daugh- 
ter of Mrs. Julia Wright Evans, of Detroit, Michigan. They 
have one child. Alice, born ]\Lirch 22, 1!»1T, to whom he was 
very much attached. They adored each other and were in- 
separable during her waking moments. 

Mr. ^^'hitman is survived by four sons by his former mar- 
riage: Ross C. Lloyd C, Roland 1).. and Bayard J. Whit- 
man, and by a brother. Wm. F. Whitman. 

Mr. Wliitman was a member of \\'m. B. Warren Lodge No. 
209, A. F. & A. M., Washington Chapter No. 43, R. A. M. and 
Chicaso Commanderv No. 19, K. T., and was buried with 



Department of Literattre, Science and Arts 243 

Masonic honors from Graceland Cemotery Chapel, April 5, 
1921. 

Two of Mr. Whitman's sons, Lloyd C. and Roland D., are 
engaged in the successful practice of law in the law firm of 
"Helmer, Moulton, Whitman c^' \\'hitman"' at 110 South Dear- 
born St., Chicago. 

The last letter received from our deceased classmate is 
copied below : 

Chicago, June 18, 1920. 
My Dear :\rr. Carter: 

I have been postponing an answer to your letter of May 
10th, because of the uncertainty whether I would be able, in 
the end, to attend our class reunion. It is a matter of pro- 
found regret that I find m}'self physically unable to be pres- 
ent. 

In looking over the list of names which you have kindly 
sent me, my sorrow deepens that I must miss this gathering 
of so many of my classmates — men now, gray-haired, wrink- 
led in feature, doubtless ; yet plainly, the same boys, I now 
know as I did not then know, I loved so dearly, years and 
years ago. 

I am keenly conscious that a future opportunity of the like 
is rapidly lessening, and I am painfully aware that on this 
occasion we are to have an unusually full attendance of men 
who have seldom appeared nt previous reunions; men whom, 
therefore, I especially wish to meet. 

My love to you all, boys, and to the wives, and to the sec- 
ond and to the third generations as well. May life move easily 
and pleasantly for you ; with the least of regrets for the past, 
and the brightest of well-warranted hopes for the future. 
Faithfully and sincerely yours, 

CHARLES R. WHITMAN. 



244 (M.ASS OF 'TO, rxiVEKSlTY OF MiCIIKJAX 

WARREN CHAFFEE WILLITS, C. E. 

Born at Adrian, Mich., July 9, 1847. — Died at Denver, Colo., 

October 30, 1901. 

It will be remembered that our former history contained an 
account of the sudden death by heart disease of Mr. Willits, 
immediately after dismounting from his bicycle and stepping 
upon the side walk of one of the streets of Denver. He was 
at that time a candidate for a public office and would have 
been elected, but for his sudden death. A widow and daugh- 
ter survived him. 

SAMUEL ROBERTSON WINCHELL. A. M. 
Born in Town of North East, Duchess Co., N. Y., Nov. 26, '43. 

Address: Ml-'U West Madison Street, Chicago. 111. 

In 1905 I established the Winched Academy at Evanston, 
111., for the purpose of giving my youngest daughter, then five 
years old my personal attention as instructor and companion. 
She was an unusually intelligent and winsome child and de- 
veloped beautifully for two years in that school, which in 
that time became a full-fledged institution witn various de- 
partments and 141 pupils enrolled. But in January, 1907, 
our darling was suddenly taken away from us by malignant 
diptheria and scarlet fever. This caused me to close the 
school, sell the property, and turn my attention to other 
things. I made a stud}^ of the city of Chicago and published 
through A. Flanagan Co., Chicago Past, Present and Future, 
a book of 18() pages, with abundant illustrations. The next 



Department of Literatt'ue, Science and Arts 245 

year I c()mi)ile(l and pnl)lishe(l at my own expense The Ar- 
tists' Blue Book of Chicago. In lit 10, I wrote and A. Flana- 
gan Co. pnblished A Civic Manual of Chicago, Cook County 
and Illinois. I then disposed of my Teachers' Agency and 
Lecture Bureau, in which I had been favored l)y the constant 
and efificient co-operation of my ever-faithful wife and for one 
school year took charge of the high school in Zion City, Illi- 
nois, at the earnest solicitation of Classmate Tindall. In 
1912, I took up the l)usincs.- of engraving and stationery in 
Chicago, in which I remained until May, 1915, when my 
health failed and I went to Minneapolis, where a brief stay 
in a sanatorium ])nt me again on my feet and I associated my- 
self with a prominent real estate firm in that city. In 1918, 
my state of health again induced me to seek a change of cli- 
mate, and I went to Palisade, Colo., and assumed the role of 
insurance agent. In August, 1950, I transferred my resi- 
dence to Grand Junction, Colo., and added real estate to in- 
surance, and am doing a fairly good business. For six months 
before coming to Grand Junction, I w^as editor and manager 
of the Palisade l)ranch of the Grand Junction Daily News. 

I have in hand half a dozen l)ook manuscripts which the 
unsettled condition of the publishing business has prevented 
me from publishing. I have always been active in church 
and Sunday school work, being a Methodist born, a Methodist 
bred, and hope to be a Methodist when I'm dead. Have been 
independent in politics, usually voting the Republican ticket ; 
was a great admirer of Theodore Roosevelt. I worked in the 
office of the National Prohibition party in Chicago during the 
two campaigns of Chafin and \\ atkins and did all the book- 
ing and routing of those candidates during both of their cam- 
paigns. I am now hollering for Harding and Coolidge. 



24(> ('i,Ass (»!■ '7(1, rxiVKKsnv ok .MiciricAx 

My three ohler children are stiH hvinij;, llarley Cor.-'on, the 
class boy Xo. 2, conducts a pros])erous advertising' business 
in Chicago; my oldest daughter lives in Palisade, Colo.; is 
the wife of A\". J. Stel)bins. superintendent of schools and 
owner of a fruit ranch, frc^m which come some of the cele- 
brated Hlberta peaches. Mr. Stebbins graduated from North- 
western Universitv in 1IM)(). Mrs. Stebbins is president of 
the A^^oman's Clul) of Palisade. My other daughter grad- 
uated from the Cunnock school of Northwestern Universit} 
and married L R. Campbell, now a prominent representative 
of the New York Life Insurance Company in Minneapolis. 
He is also a graduate of Northwestern University. 

My health is now good. An old Chicago accjuaintance met 
me here a few davs ago and said I loc^ked beter than I did 
fifteen years ago. I wonder what he meant. M}' wife says 
writing is my hobbv. I like to raise poultry, and have had 
some verv fine specimens of AAdiite W'yandottes and Anconas^ 
though T never became a fancier. 1 could never save money 
enough to buv an automobile, and now my aml)ition is to buy 
an airplane so that I can g'o to our next reunion. I find walk- 
ing a healthful exercise, so I con(|uer the high cost of shoes 
by walking from three to fifteen miles a day drumming up 
trade. AAdiile in college I was one of the original University 
Glee Club, and I have never lost my fondness for singing-. 
Last winter I sang tenor in the oratorio "The Holy City," 
which was given in Palisade and Clifton. While in Minne- 
apolis I gave a course of lectures on the history of the Bible, 
and while in Chicago, I sometimes lectured on Chicago. 

Mrs. Winchell has written many short poems, some of 
which have been prominently published, the last one, just 
published, being "Peach FMcking in Grand Valley." 



DePAKTMEXT of LriERATTRE, SCIENCE AND AUTS 247 

Mr. AA'inchell returned to Chicago Jan. 1, 1921, because of 
the critical condition of his wife's health, v^he is, for this 
reason, obliged to remain with her daughter in Minneapolis, 
while he occupies the responsible position of Editor and Busi- 
ness AFanager of The Westcenter Chicagoan. a weekly paper 
published by the \\'estcentcr Commercial Association of Chi- 
cago. He reports his health as better than eyer and that he 
is doing the work of four men. 



CHARLES GORDON WING, PH. B., LL. B. 

Born January 21, 1848 in Cattarangus County, N. Y. Died 
Ludington, Mich., November 12, 1920. 

Class Letter. 

Ludington, Mich.. May 2, 1878. 
My Firethren : 

These letters bring me joy. There is a certain uniformity 
of "'tale" in the earlier ones turned practical of later date. 1 
have been quite a busy practitioner since April, 1874. Octo- 
ber 1, 187;], I opened an office here. I earned nothing for 
four months. I got all I earned then. Afterwards, perhaps. 
I got more. Wells is the sole cause of my being here. \\'e 
were in the law school to'rether in ']2 and '7. "5. and he offered 
me a position here as foreman on the harbor improvements — 
a position I dotibted my fitness for, but accepted because it 
gave me four dollars per day and a chance to marry the girl 
wdiich T did instanter and brought her along. Miss Jennie 
Poole of Sharon, Mich. She was teaching with me two years 
at Manchester. We have two daughters. The only reward 
Wells got for his favor was in a real estate transaction. We 
purchased together some property in '74, wdiich cost us one 



248 Class of 70, University of Michigan 

thousand dollars and is worth less than five hundred dollars 
now. I studied law in Jackson with Gibson. I was not pr^'S- 
ent, perhaps some will remember at the 'To reunion, but at the 
rally this }ear ni}' appearance is entered. I saw Oscar Camp- 
bell last week in Cle\-eland. He expressed a feeling which 
is doubtless universal that we should all g'ather at the big 
talk in June. WING. 

Since 1 !•(>;;, nothing especially worthy of mention to the 
members of the class has occurred in my experience. My 
})rincipal job while it lasted was the education of a family 
of seven children, fi\-e girls and two boys, and since that was 
completed in I'.M 1, ni}- efforts have seemed devoid of any un- 
derlying motive. Kthelwyn, a graduate of the University of 
^Michigan, later also of the University of California, resides 
at TJerkeley, the seat of the latter institution, her office in 
Oakland, her occu])ation the management of the Delphian so- 
ciety on the Pacific coast. Jessie, now ]\Irs. F. B. Olney, 
resides in Ludington. Gordon V. Wing, not as a boy overly 
given to books, is a lumberman at Odanah, Wisconsin. Alice, 
a graduate of the Universit}- of Illinois, is one of the staff of 
the state library at Lansing. Mabel, now Mrs. Dr. S. F. Ivl- 
wards, since her husband, of John Hopkins University, en 
tered the army, unsettled as to residence. ( )ril. a graduate of 
Oberlin. has been a teacher in California. Charles, a grad- 
uate of Oberlin. is a teacher of piano music at the University 
of Indiana. 

To make an adetpiate homestead where the children would 
grow up and be welcome to remain I went to work quite early 
clearing up a farm just out of town. They grew up there, 
but none remains except for visits. We live there simply 
because it is impossible to look upon any other spot in the 



DePAUTMEXT of LiTERATrUE. S('IEX("E AND AUTS 249 

light of a home. Rather from lial)it than interest in farm- 
ing, I am apt to be engaged about farm maters everv morning" 
before 9 o'clock and after that hour to be a banker. I am 
not obliged, however, to keep office hours at the l)ank in these 
later years, and my best thought is given to the editorial col- 
umns of a daily newspaper. The Ludington Daily X^ews is 
the only local organ of publicity and the control of it I aiiu 
to use as a member of the class of 'T<', ought to use the lead- 
ing influence of the community in which he lives. ^^Iv lei- 
sure hours, if any. are given to the |)reparation of a history 
of this county where I rank as a pioneer. 

In a disclosure so intimately personal as Mr. Carter's cir- 
cular indicates this writing should be made, perhaps a place 
should be found for my painful experience with the medics 
two years ago. In April, 1918, a neoplasm was discovered 
about the size of a pea on the soft-palate. I was advised to 
give it prompt attention. It was, however. July 4th when I 
got started to the sanitarium at Battle Creek. Radium treat- 
ment was recommended. This was applied in Chicago. 
Quite reduced in strength by the pain of this slowly acting 
remedy through the remaining months of 191(S. I had never- 
theless entirely recovered by the time of our return from Cali- 
fornia in the spring of 1919. \\niile I w^as in Chicago under 
treatment. Mr. Dawson was a great comfort, as indeed he has 
always been. No other healing came to me in those weeks 
of pain more sustaining than the long beautiful letters of Ed- 
ward E. Darrow. full of tenderness and soothing philosophy. 
Thev are still the most precious of memories, (^f the neop- 
lasm there has been no reappearance and I have been partly 
in doubt whther I should not have ignored both the neoplasm 
and the medics. 



250 Class of 7(1', r.xivKHsrrv oi^ .Michigan 

I note the undiminished "punch" of Carter as he tackles the 
new job required of him last June. That is a niaiier I hope 
to hear talked over in 1935. 

CHARLES G. WING. 

Ludington. Mich.. Sept. 3, 1920. 

Father passed away without warning November 12, 1920, 
and the sure anchor of our family life is no more. Despite 
our abiding loss we are reconciled to the summons which 
forbade him "linger till the glass be all outrun." 

There have been many touching tributes to father's years 
of activity and public service in this conununity and we are 
thankful both for his continued efforts and for the apprecia- 
tion of them. Father's horizon was not limited to his daily 
tasks, his interest in the world's work remained keen. 

Whatever pleasure associations with men aftordcd him 
throughout the years, none ranked in his mind with the class 
of '70. The inspiration and blessing father enjoyed in this 
relation has been shared by his wdiole family. We are grate- 
ful to the old friends of 'TO. 

Faithfully, 

JESSIE WING OLNEY. 

The following item appeared in the Ivuddington Daily News 
of November 20, 1920: 

Mr. Wing's first work in Ludington was in the employ of 
the United States government. He was an inspector of dock 
building. Following this he began the ])ractice of his pro- 
fession in the law. On July 1. 1875, he was appointed judge 
of probate for Mason county by Governor Bagley of Michi- 
gan. 

To give Ludington an abundant supi)ly of pure drinking 
water was ^Ir. Wing's earlv ambition. He bought control 



DEI'AUT.MKNT of LiTEKATUUI']^ SCIK-XCK AM) AUTS '27)1 

of the company operating" water works and devoted months in 
studying" the problem on which he says the development of 
his adopted city rested. The fruition of his plans gave Lud- 
ington pure water and a system that has stood the test of a 
quarter of a century. 

Seeing the need of additional banking" facilities, Mr. Wing 
associated himself with other men of means and established 
the Ludington State bank. He served continuously as its 
president initil the present day. 

Some eight years ago, realizing" that a strongly financed, 
well conducted daily newspaper was essential to progress in 
Mason county. Mr. Wing put money behind The Daily News 
and eventually was compelled to take it over and operate it. 
At great personal sacrifice, he invested thousands of dollars 
to procure ecjuipment to n"iake possible the production of a 
paper worthy of Ludington. His friends (some of them) said 
he had gone too far "to make it pay." But his was the clear 
vision. As with the water works, so with the paper — he 
bought the best, so that dependable service could be given. 

In April, 1915, upon the arrival of the present manager, Mr. 
Wing devoted his personal attention to the local publication. 
W^ith jealous care he prepared his editorial matter. This he 
made a serious business. His aim was to set before the peo- 
ple of Mason county right ideals and to pro\'ide for his readers 
a liberal education. 

For more than a year Mr. Wing had been engaged in writ- 
ing a historical sketch, "Mason County — a Tale of Early 
Times." His story started with the year ISr)."). The scanti- 
ness of records made his task an arduous one. Only yesterday 
he wrote the concluding" paragraphs for the last installment 
to appear next Monday. He proposed to finish the work dur- 



I'a: 



Class of 'TO, Uxivkksitv of Mkiikjan 



ing his vacation in California this winter and resume puhli- 
cation of the instaUments upon his return next spring. 

THOMAS WYLIE, A. B. 

Born at Martin, Mich., December 25, 1847 Died at Martin. 
Mich., April 3, 1877. 

He prepared for the ministry, but in February, 18TG. he 
was caught in a cold rain storm and got a severe chill from 
which he could not recover. He lingered along many months, 
but his struggle was in vain. He was obliged to yield up his 
life in April. 18T7. 



Department of Literature^ j^ciexce and Arts 253 



IN MEMORIAM. 

No one hears the door that opens 

When they pass beyond our call; 
Soft as loosened leaves of roses 

One by one our loved ones fall. 

John William Johnson, 

January S. 1870. 

Julius Abiram Blackburn, 
February 23, 1847. April 35, 1870. 

Thomas Wylie, 
December 25, 1847. April 3, 1877. 

George Throop Campau, 
July 29, 1847. February 5, 1879. 

James Alfred Hayward, 
September 12, 1849. August 12, 1880. 

Charles Ballenger, 
September 28, 184(5. March 13, 1881. 

Judson Slatford Bird, 
October 9, 1846. March 19, 1882. 

Thomas Harper Bush, 
April 3, 1847. March 29. 1887. 

Otis Erastus Haven, 
July 27, 1849. February 3, 1888. 

Peter Voorheis, 
September 11, 1843. December 17, 1890. 

Albert William Weisbrod, 
October 4, 1851. April 18, 1892. 

V^incent Smith Lovell, 
May 2, 1845. December 7, 1892. 

^^'illiam Thomas Emerson, 
July 23, 1848. August 29. 1897. 



254 Class of 70, University of Michigan 

Frank Howard ITowe, 
May 10, 1850. December 29, ISDT. 

Patrick Henry Uunipus. 
January 21, ISil. February IS, 1S!)S. 

AX'arren Chaffee Willits, 
July !), 1847. October 3U, 11)01. 

John Loveland Culley, 
October 11, 1847. February o, 1903. 

Marcus Baker, 
September 28, 1849. December 12, 1903. 

Alexander Thomson, 
May 2, 1844. December 28, 1904. 

Arthur Clark Adams, 
April 14, 1847. December 31, 1904. 

Francis A\'ayland Jones, 
August 23, 1849. January 8, 190.-). 

Charles Manley Wells, 
October 23, 1842. February 24, 1905. 

Eugene Ketchum, 
April 13, 1840. November K), 1900. 

Michael Alexander ]\Ieyendorft', 
December 3, 1849. February 7, 1!»0S. 

AA'illiam Lorenzo P(-nfield. 
April 2, 1846. May !), 19<i9 

Robert Newton Fearon, 
March 14, 1839. January 18, 1910. 

Harlow Palmer Davock, 
March 11, 1848. August 30, 1910. 

Oliver Hart Wattles, 
January 29, 1850. ^larch 23. 1911. 

Charles Francis Burton, 
November 8, 1849. October 5, 1911. 



Dei'akt.ment ov Literature, Science and Arts 255 

Thomas Chalmers Cliristy, 
October 18. 1S4G. December IT, IOKk 

Alfred Xoble, 
August T, 18-U. April li), 19U. 

James Fisher Tweedy, 
March 20, 1849. December 21, 1914. 

\^'illiam Freeman Matthews. 
October 31, 1849. June 5, 1915. 

Milo Elijah Marsh, 
November 16. 1847. February 5. 1916. 

Achilles Finley, 
May 15. 1843. May 15, 1916. 

Franklin Bradley, 
June 4. 1845. May 22, 1916. 

' Oscar James Campbell. 
April 27, 1846. June 17, 1917. 

Rufus Hill Thayer, 
June 29, 1849. July 12- l''l^- 

Charles Phelps Gilbert. 
INIarch 16. 1846. October 1. 1917. 

James Harrison Blanchard. 
December 6, 1846. January 24, 1918. 

Charles Keene Dodge, 
April 26, 1844. March 23, 1918. 

Frank Gunnison, 

February 2, 1818. April 23, 1919. 

Henry Graves Bennett, 

September 6, 1846. . 1^1^ 

Aaron Perr^^ 
November 11. 1848. February 12, 1920. 

Maxwell Addison Phillips, 
May 13, 1841. May 5, 1920. 



250 Class of 'TO, r.MVKUsriv ov Mi(111(;a.\ 

Charles Gordon \\'in£;", 
January 2\, IS HI. \ovcml)er ]-i, 1920. 

Morris r>isliop lM)slcr, 
January i:.. 1S|;5. Fel)ruary 10, 10-il. 

Cit'ori^c A\'ashin^ton Allyn, 
NovcMuber "iS. IS IT). JH'hruary -.Mi. 1!)21. 

( hven Ivlgar Lcl'\'\rc. 
Aui^usl C. ISIS. ^larch v^S, lif.M. 

Cliark's Ru(l(il])lius A\'hilnian, 
Oc-l(.1)c'r I. ISi:. April 2, 1I)2T. 

William James Waters. 
September 1<). IS II. Date of death unknown. 

NOTES. 

The L;rim rea])er, in the last half-et'ulury carried oh ten of 
our dear ones in the montli of l'\'hruary, ei^ht in December, 
six in March, six in .\])ril, four in January, four in May. three 
in .\u,L;ust, three in ( )ctober. two in June, two in \o\ember 
and one in |ul\'. ."-^eptendjcr pro\ed to be oiu" best friend, 
not i)ermitlinL'; de.ath to enter our ranks once durni!;' the eniire 
stretch of tift\- \-ears. All hail to the glorious month of v'-^e])- 
tend)er ! 

Our two class boys. A\'alter v'^ylvester r.allin^er and llarley 
Corson Winchell are successfull\- en^ai^ed in busmess. the 
former in [ndianai)olis. and the latter in Chica.go. 

We re])rodnce in this book half-tout' i)ictures of the L^rouj) 
l)hotoL:r;i])hs taken at oiu' reunions in I'.Ml.'). 1!)10 and UM."). re- 
spectixeh- ; the one taken in IM'iO was not clear enough to be 
re])ro(luced, so as to be distinguishable. 

iMulev died on his birthday at the age of seventv-three years. 



Depau'I'mknt of Literatt'RE, Science and Auts 257 




258 Class of 'TO, Uxivehsity of Michigan 

CLASS MEETINGS. 



It has been a custom of our Class to celel^rate a reunion at 
the University e\ery fiftli year, with a han([uet. This has 
given opportunity to re-visit old friends, observe changes on 
the campus l)v constructi(^n of new buildings, tearing" down of 
old ones, and changes in and around the city of Ann Arbor. 
These attractions in a<ldition to the desire to see and greet the 
"boys" once more ha\'e alwa3\s been sufficient to bring to- 
gether a goodly numl)er, once in five Vv'ars, withoui any great 
effort being" made. 

In addition to these regular gatherings we have had num- 
erous local impromptu meetings in various parts of the coun- 
try, whenever circumstances were fa^•orable, whether the num- 
ber at the meeting might be small or large. Such was our 
meeting at St. Louis, in 1004, at the time of the World's Fair. 
The Secretary saw an opportunity to have a meeting of sev- 
eral mend)ers and their families wdiile visiting the Fair, by 
fixing a time and place of meeting, and sending" out a circular 
giving information as to the time and jilace. This was done, 
"^Michigan Day" being the time, and "Michigan State Build- 
ing" the place. It turned out to be a success. When the time 
arrived we found twenty-three ]:)resent wearing our college 
colors, which had been provided in advance for the occasion. 
The following res])onded to the roll call: Bradley; Darrow, 
wife and son: Moore, wife and two daughters; Bowman; 
Baldwin, A. E. ; Allyn and wife ; Fearon, wife and two daugh- 
ters ; AA'ells : LeFevre and wife ; Price and son ; Stevens ; and 
Carter. After recovering from the surprise of finding so large 
a number present, we were treated to two more surprises: 
One was that, it being "^lichigan Day," the Secretary of the 
Exposition. I'niversity of Michigan Alumnus — a Class of '70 



Depart.ment of Literature^ Science and Arts 259 

man — our own Stevens, had been selected to make the address 
to the public on that day, and "the University of Michigan" 
was to be the subject of the address — and an excellent address 
it was. The other surprise was an invitation to the "Class 
of 'TO, University of ^Michigan, with their wives, sons and 
daughters," from Walter B. Stevens, to a six o'clock dinner, 
that evening, on the second floor of the A\'est Pavillion. We 
were all there at the appointed time and ])lace, to greet our 
gracious host and partake of a delicious dinner. 

It would be difficult to imagine a prouder set of alumni than 
we were at that time, — guests of a fellow alumnus, the Secre- 
tary of the ^^'orld's Fair, partaking of his bounty on an upper 
pavillion of one of its mammoth buildings, towering above 
the clouds, from whose dizzy heights we were enjoying a 
bird's eye view of, what seemed to us, a scene of unparalleled 
magnificence and grandeur. A\'e were grateful indeed for the 
pleasures of that day, never to be forgotten by those of 'TO, 
who were there. Our host received us very cordially and, in 
an after dinner talk, related an amusing incident of a noted 
foreigner, a balloonist, who had entered the list in a contest 
for a prize which had been advertised for some weeks to 
come off that day. It seems this "famous" foreigner was 
seen coming from the hangar where his balloon was housed 
just before the contest was to begin, his countenance the pic- 
ture of dispair, his tears flowing copiously, and he complaining" 
bitterly that some enemy, rival, or evil disposed person had 
been there in his absence and cut a slit in his balloon, so that 
he could not use it in the race. On examination, sure enough 
there was a slit in the balloon, the only question was, whose 
knife cut it. 

An impromptu gathering took place in Chicago. August 4, 
1904, on the occasion of a short sojourn there by A\'ells. from 



2()() Class of "7(1, rxivKKsrrv of Michigan 

Los Angeles. The meeting- consisted of Dawson, Darrow, 
Matthews. Tindall, Winchell, \A'hitnian and Wells. An ac- 
count of it is related by Wells in a letter to the Secretary 
printed herein. 

At our regular reunion at the L'nixersity. Jwiie 31, 1905, 
there were present : Bates ; Beman, wife and daughter ; Boss 
and wife ; Burton ; Campbell, wife, daughter and son ; Carter 
and wife ; Dawson and wife ; Davock ; Day, wife and son ; 
Dodge and wife; Noble; Olds and wife; Perry; Whitman; 
Wing; Allyn ; Darrow ; Moore and son, and Brown, at whose 
residence we met. The names of a few additional members 
of our families present escaped the Secretary. 

It was on this occasion that the Class highly honored the 
Secretary by presenting to him. through Justice William R. 
Day. a very beautiful silver service, bearing the seal of the 
University of Michigan. This choice gift was greatly ap- 
preciated and prized by the Secretary and for which he has 
ever .since felt grateful to the donors. Mrs. Carter has shared 
in this feeling, and has kept the service shined up to a dazzling 
brightness, constantly in readiness for use. wdienever a mem- 
ber of 'TO favors us with a call. 

Our next reunion was celebrated at Ann Arbor, June 29, 
1910. There were present: Barlow^ and wife; Bates; Beman, 
wife and son ; Boss and wife ; Bradley and wife ; Brown ; Bur- 
ton ; Allyn; Camjibell ; Carter, wife and daughter; Dawson 
and wife ; Davock ; Dodge and wife ; Darrow ; Errett ; French ; 
Kintner and wife; Matthews; Noble; Olds; Perry; Price and 
son; Ripley, wife, daughter and son; Wing; and Williams. 
Professor M. L. D'Ooge and Ezra Rust were our guests on 
this occasion. By the kind and generous invitation of Pro- 
fesi-or and Mrs. Beman we had the great pleasure of being 



DErAKTMEXT OF LlTEIJATUUE, SCIENCE aND ART^^ 26J 

received and entertained with a banquet at their attractive 
residence, 91.') East Kinglsey Street. 

In Feljruary, 1!)11, as you all remember, Mr. Justice Wil- 
liam R. Day, was given a very cordial public reception in 
New York City, b}- more than a thousand of Michigan alumni 
in which many of the members of the Class of '70 participated. 
This afiforded the Class of '7 an extra o])portunity of getting 
together under s]:»ecial circumstances, and of having a delight- 
ful meeting with their old Classmate, the guest of the eve- 
ning. The great reception was enjoyed by all present. 

We held our regular reunion at the University in Jnne, 
1!»15. \\'e had seated around the banquet table: Barlow; 
Bates ; Beman and wdfe ; Boss and wife ; Camplxdl ; Carter, 
wife and son: Darrow ; Dawson and wife; Dodge and wife; 
French and daughter; Hyde; Kintner and wife; LeFevre; 
Price ; Riple\- ; Stevens ; AXdiitman and \A'^ing and wife. The 
Clas.s was indebted to F'rofessor and ]\Irs. Beman for this very 
enjoyable banquet. Its sociable feature was specially attrac- 
tive, the com])any lingering late, being loathe to separat :. The 
Class decided to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary by making 
our head-quarters and our having our ban((uet at the ^lichi- 
gan Union. The place was engaged and tlie mend)ers notified 
months in advance in order that all might secure rooms and 
be located near each other. This proved to be wise, for if the 
weather was stormy or uncomfortably warm we could keep 
up our visiting without going outside of the building. We 
met every dav and frequently had our meals together, and by 
speaking in advance we could have a private table reserved 
for us. There were present: Allyn ; Barlow and wife; Bates; 
Beman; Boss; Carter and wife; Cooley and wife; Dawson 
and wife ; Darrow ; Fleming ; Ferguson ; French ; Ilowland ; 
Hvde; Olds; Price; Ripley; Schock ; Swift; AVing; Mrs. W. 



2G2 Clasj? of 70, University of Michigan 

L. Smith of Detroit, daughter of Classmate Marsh, deceased 
and Frederick C. Xoble, of Xew York City, son of Classmate 
Noble, deceased. We had a ban([uet room to ourselves. After 
the banquet was (lisi)osed of, the intellectual feast was en- 
joyed. Interesting informal talks were made by most of those 
present particularly by Schock. Ferguson, Fleming, Ripley, 
vSwift and Frederick C. Xoble. Letters of regret were read 
from several members who were unable to be present. The 
Class adoptd a resolution of regret that Kintner, although re- 
siding in Ann Arbor, was too ill to attend the bancjuet, and 
in consequence Mrs. Kintner was also detained. A vote of 
sympathy was passed. The usual singing" of the old college 
songs tilled up the intervals in the program. This was ren- 
dered enjoyable by the foresight of Dawson, wdio had supplied 
typewritten copies, sufficient for all, of the old songs we sang 
in the long ago. He took charge of the music in his usual 
masterlv way. It was at this meeting that the Class author- 
ized the publishing of this present volume. Before separating 
we resolved to have our banquet in r.»"?5. at the Michigan 
Union. 

It is a matter of regret that the group photograph of the 
Class taken on this occasion turned out to be a failure, some 
of the faces being blurred and so dim as to be undistinguish- 
able. 



INDEX 



Adams, Arthur Clark 29, 31. ?>?., 37, 117, 221 

Adams, Louis W 32 

Allyn, Mrs. Fannie ( widow of George W. ) 32, 258 

Allyn. George Wasliington 5. 25. 32. 33. 2fiO, 261; prt., front. Ud 

Ann Arbor '^ 13, 14, 46, 221. 258 

Bagley, Governor of Micliigan 250 

Baird. Mrs. Harry M. (nee Corinne V. Errett) 95 

Baker. Mrs. Arthur D. ( nee Edith Cooley ) 70 

Baker, Marcus 29. ;i7, S6. 94. 221 

Baldwin, John Albert 37. 38. 39. 55, 111. 217, 218 

Ballenger. Charles 39. 40. 90, 92, 235 

Ballenger, Walter Sylvester 52, 53, 57, 72 

Barlow, Henry Hoyt 40. 2(50. 2(51 ; prt., 96. 257 

Barlow. Mrs. Henry H 260. 261; prt., 96 

Bates, George William 41, 53, 55, 76, 260. 261; prt.. front. 96. 257 

Bellamy, Mrs. Harry E. (nee Eva Frederica Le Fevre)..124. 127. 128 

Beman, Ralph (son of Wooster W.) 260; prt.. front 

Beman. Miss Winifred E. (daughter of Wooster W.)..260; prt.. front 
Beman, Wooster Woodruff — 

41, 42. lOS. Ill, 214, 260. 261; prt.. front. 96. 257 

Beman, Mrs. Wooster W 42. Ill, 214, 260. 261; prt.. front. 96 

Bennett, Henry G 67. ()8 

Bird, Miss Cora (sister of Judson S. ) 43 

Bird, Miss Jennie L. (sister of Judson S.) 41 

Bird. Judson Slatford 4;i. 53. 77. 90. 115. 1 16. 139. 181 

Bird. Mrs. Mary E. (widow of Judson S. ) 43 

Blackburn. Julius A 14. 14. 45, 1 80 

Blanchard, James Harrison 46, 47, 55, 68, 217 

Boss, z\lward (son of Cl.T-iKe '*'.) 49 

Boss, Clarence Morton 47, 12s, 129, 260, 261; prt.. front. 96, 257 

Boss, Mrs. Clarence M 260, 261; prt., front. 96. 257 

Boss, Miss Mary Agnes (daugiiter of Clarence M.) 49 

Bradley, Franklin 50, 51, 209. 260; prt., 96 

Bradley. Mrs. Franklin 260; prt., 96 

Bunipus, Patrick Henry 53. 54. 90, 91. 93. 221 

Burton. Charles Francis 54. 55. 260; prt.. front. 96 

Burton, Miss Ethel (daughter of Charles F.) 54 

Burton, Mrs. Martha (widow of Charles F.) 54 

Bush, Thomas Harper 52. 53. 128 

Campau. George Throup 55, 56, 77, 204 

Campau. Mrs. Mary (widow of George T.) .57 

Campau, Montgomery (son of George T.) 57 

Campau, Woolsey (son of George T.) 57 

Campbell, Charles Fuller 58, 59 

Campbell, Mrs. I. R. (daughter of S. R. Winchell) 246 

Campbell, Oscar James — 

57, 58, 77, 226. 248. 260. 261; prt.. front. 96, 257 

Campbell, Mrs. Oscar J 260; prt.. front 

Campbell, Oscar James, Jr 58, 50 



INDEX 



Carter, Charles E. (son nf Charles S.) no, r.4, :2r.l : prt., 257 

Carter, Charles S. — 

24. 25, 52, 58, 60, ()(>, ()'.), SS, 92, 94, 97, 121, l.'.l, 1:1"). 145, 1()2, 209, 220. 

22.S, 224, 226, 2;!8, 239, 240, 243, 250, 258, 260, 261 : i)rt.. front. 96, 257 
Carter, Mrs. Charles .S.. .62, 63. 70. 227, 240. 260. 261 : prt.. fr^nt, 96, 257 
Carter, Miss Lillian M. (daughter of Charles S.) — 

60, 62, 6::, 64, 260; prt., 90 

Chandler, Mrs. George ^1. (nee Cooley) 70 

Christy, Mrs. Rehecca K. (widow of Thomas C.) 69 

Christy. Thomas Chalmers 65. 66. 67 

Class 'Books 17 

Class 13. 14. IS, 25. 29. 55. 58. 94. 15:i. 209. 221. 258, 262 

Class Boy 39. 256 

Ciass Letter.. 29. .",1. 37. 38. 39. 43. 44. 46, 52, 53. 54. 56. 57. 65. 72, 76. 89, 

90, 92, 97, 109, 110, 113, 114, 117. 119, 128. 135. 137. 138, 220. 228, 237 

Class Majority 8, 11, 16 

Class Meetings 258. 260. 261 

Classmates of Seventy 8. 9. 13. 18. 25. 55. 94. 123 

Cleveland, President Grover 156 

Cooley, David H. (son of Eugene E.) 71 

Cooley, Edgar L. (son of Eugene E.) 70 

Cooley, Eugene E 11. 69. 261 

Cooley. Airs. Eugene E 261 

Cooley, Erank (son of Eugene E.) "0 

Culley, John Loveland 72, 77, 139 

Darrow, Edward Everett — 

7, 69. 73, 84, 103. 129. 209, 238, 239. 249. 260, 2(;i ; prt, 96, 257 

Darrow, Mrs. Edward E 74, 84, 258 

Davock, Clarence W. (son of Harlow P.) so. 81 

■ Davock. Harlow Noble (son of Harlow P ) SO 



75. 76. 



80, 



10, i:',9, 260; prt., front, 96 



Davock, Harlow Palmer. 
Dawson, George E. — 

14, 81, 129, 131. 238, ♦39. 249. 260. 261; prt.. front. 257 

Dawson, Mrs. George E 83. 260. 261 ; prt.. front, 257 

Dawson, Manierre (son of George E.) 81 

Dawson. Mitchell (son of George E.) 81, 82 

Day. Luther (son of Justice William R.) 88 

Day, Rufus (son of Justice William R.) 88 

Day, Stephen (son of Justice William R.) 88 

Day. William L. (son of Justice William R.) 88 

Day. Justice William Rufus — 

58. 77, 86. 87. 89, 131, 163, 177, 178, 228, 2(;0; prt . front 

Day, Mrs. William R 87. 88. 260; prt.. front 

Dodge, Charles Keene 89. 90. 260, 261 ; prt., front, 96, 257 

Dodge, ]Mrs. Charles K 90. 260. 261 ; prt., fr.mt. 96. 257 



I^arle. Mrs. L. H. (nee Jennie Gilbert) Ill 

Edwards. Charles S 92. 93 

Edwards. Mrs. S. F. (nee Mabel Wing) 248 

Emerson, Mrs. Eliza (mother of William Thomas) 91 

Emerson, William Thomas 90, 91 

Errett, Henry T. (son of Russell) 95 

Errett, John P. (son of Russell) 95 

Errett, Russell 94, 260; prt., 96 

Fearon, Robert Newton 93, 97, 98, 209; prt.. front 



INDEX lii 

Fearon. Mrs. Robert N 98, 258 

Ferguson, Luther Elliott 100, :>61 

Fifty Years After — and Thereafter 7 

Finley. Achilles 102, 110, 129 

Fleming. Edwin 5.!, 90, 10:.'. lo:!, 129. 204. 220. 221, 261, 2(52 

Foster, Dr. Bainbridge W. (sun of Morris B.) 107 

Foster, Morris Bishop 5, 25, 9:'., 104, 105. 129 

Foster. Robert M. (son of Morris 15.) 107 

Foster. Thomas I. (son of Morris B.) 107 

French. Miss Anna Rood (daughter of George J.) 251; prt., 257 

French. George Jay 107. 108, 2()0, 201: prt.. 9(5. 257 

Gaines. Mrs. E. C. ( nee Adele F. Foster) 107 

Gates of Pearl 17 

General Secretary of the Class 24. 25 

Gilbert, Charles P 72, 77. 90. 109, 111. i:i9. 217 

Gilbert, }*lrs. Charles P Ill 

Gilhllan. Mrs Emory (nee Jean Campbell) 59 

Gunnison, Frank Ill, 112 

Harrington, Mrs. Charles W. (ree Blanche Winifred Marsh ).... l^fi 

Ha'-ringt'in. >lrs. William Austin (nee Meiraliell L. Marsh) i:?r, 

Haven, Otis Erastus r,i\. 11 Ti, 114 

Hayward. James Alfred 114. 110. 117, 230 

Howe, Frank Howard 117. 118, 221 

Howland. John Collins 55, n7, 261 

Hukill, Mrs. Emory G. (daughter of Oscar J. Campbell) 59, 260 

Hyde, Clarence (son of Washington) 119 

Hyde. Edward (son of Washington) 119 

Hyde. Washington 72. 77. 118. 261 ; prt., 257 

In Memoriam 25?> 

Jones, Francis Wayland 46, 119, 120. 121. 128. 130 

Keeper of the Book 24 

Kessler. Mrs. Adaline C. (nee Cooley) 71 

Ketchum. Edith L. (daughter of Eugene) 122 

Ketchum. Eugene 121. 122. 129 

Kintner, Charles J 108. 122, 260, 261. 262; prt.. 96. 257 

Kintner. Mrs. Charles J 123. 260. 261. 262; prt., 96, 257 

Last Survivor 6, 9. 21, 24 

Le Fevre, Owen Edgar — 

5, 25, 123, 125, 126. 127. 128. 209. 258, 261; prt., 257 

Le Fevre, Mrs. Owen E 124, 126. 127, 128, 227, 258" 

Life's the coming one 10, 11 

Lovell, Vincent Sm.ith 103, 128, 129, 204 

Lovell, Mrs. Vincent S 129 

McAlvay. Mrs. Carl E (nee Eva Cooley) 70 

McKibbier. Mrs. Frank B. (nee Elizabeth Cooley) 70 

McKinley, President William .' 157, 178 

Maltman. John Scott 46, 120, 128. 130. 131. 132. 13:i. 135. 218 

Maltman. John. Jr. (son of John S.) 134 

Alarsh. Milo Eliiah 77. 135 

Matthews, Mrs. Emma A. (widow of William F.) 138 



iv , INDEX 

Mattliews, William iM-ceman . . . . 10'.), i:!7, :.';!1, :338. :2:;0, 2(10; prt., 9fi. 

Memorial Hall H'> 

Meyendorff. Michael A. .72, T7, 110, lis, i:!S. 140, 141, 142, 14:i, 144, 221 

Michigan Union '>. 1 :!, 2() 1 , 2112 

Mickle. George Washington 4.1, 5:;, DO, IKi. 120, 144, LSI, 20:) 

Moses, Bernard .52, 121), 145-1. '):;, 204, 228 

Noble, Alfred, .77, '.)1, 110, IKi, l.T!), 1.54-ir)8, 171, 227, 228, 2()0: prt., front 

Noble, Frederick C. (-on uf Alfred) 2C>2 

Nydia 14, 15 

Olds, Clark KU), 170, 171. 200; prt.. front. Ofi 

Olds. Mrs. Clark 2(i0; prt.. front 

Olds, Irving S. (son of Clark) 171 

Olrey, Mrs. F. B. (nee Jessie Wing) 248, 250 

( )nr Class Letter 2',> 



Pedrick, Isaac H lifi, (i7, (IS, 82 

Penfield, Miss Blanche (daughter of William L. ) 175 

Pentield, Walter Scott (son "of William L.) 17.5 

Penfield. William Lorenzo 8(i, 17:M8(), 22S 

Penfield, Mrs. William L 175 

Pennington, Darius Comstock 171, 172, 171! 

Perry, Aaron 110, ISO, 181, 182, 18:5, 2(i0: i)rt., Ofi 

Perry, Mrs. Ann m 1 85 

Perry. Stuart H. (sun of Aaron) 182, 185, IS'i 

Phillips, Maxwell is(i. is7, 188 

Plump. Mrs. Eric (nee Adams) ,32 

Price. C. P.. (son of Samuel B.) 188, 258 

Price, J. H. ( son of S'amuel B.) 188. 2(i0 

•Price, Samuel B 77, 188, 200, 258, 2(50, 261 : prt., Ofi, 257 

Rioley. Birch (son of Henry C.) 105, 109 

Ripley, Henry Clay — 

5;]. 115, 110, 180-100. 2:15. 2(i0, 201, 2<i2; prt, O'i, 257 

Ripley, 3Irs. Henry C 102, 104, 105, 100, 2(iO; prt., Ofi 

Ripley. Herbert (son of Henry C.) 100 

Ripley. Loraine (daughter of Henry C.)....104, 105, 100, 2(iO: prt, 00 

Ripley. Racine (son of Henry C.) 102, 104. 105. 100, 2fi0; prt.. Of! 

Roosevelt, President Theodore. .140, 14 1, 142, 158, 178, 218, 210, 222. 228 

Schock, William Henry 1 00-20:!. 2'')1 

Secretary of. the Class ."5, 24, 25 

Slifer. :Mrs. Roy (nee Hallie M. Errett) ..'.".95 

Smith, Mrs. Willis Lee (nee Myrtie Amont Marsh) 1,'^fi, 2(53 

Stebbins. Mrs. W^ J. (daughter of S. R Wirchell) 24G 

Stevens. Walter Barlow 77. 203-214. 259. 201; prt.. 257 

Stocking. Leonard F.miah 21 4-21 S 

Swift, Lucius Burrie 218, 219, 220, 2(i1. 202 

Taft. Ex-President William Howard 140. ifil 

Thayer. Rufus Hildreth lO.'i. 11 7, 124. 220-228 

Thomson, .\lexander oog 

Thomson. ]Mrs. Alexander '. 220 

Tindall, Orlando Lafayette 2:;0-2:!2. 238, 230. 245. 200 

Tindall, ^^Irs. Orlando L 231 



INDEX 



Tweedy. Arthur (son of James F.)^ 23-t 

Tweedy, James B. (son of James 1'.) '-•'•-f 

Tweedy. James Fisher •'i^. '^-'i~. 23.'5 

Tweedy. Mrs. James F 234 

Tweedy. Richard (son of James V.) 234 

Tyler. Moses Coit ■'()4. 205 

University ^^ 

Voorheis. Peter 234. 235 

Waters. William James 43. 53. 115. 230 

Wattles, Oliver Hart 236 

Weisbrod, Albert William 237 

Wells. Charles Manley 40. (?6. 130, ISl. 217. 237-242, 247, 260 

Wells, Mrs. Charles M 238, 240 

Wells, F. B. (son of Charles AI.) 240 

Wells, George R. (son of Charles M.) 2-10 

Wells, L. C. (son of Charles M.) 240 

Westfall, Mrs. K. G. (nee Bird) 43 

Whitman, Bayard J. (son of Charles R.) 242 

Whitman, Charles Rudolphus — 

5, 25, 10S, 131. 238. 239. 242. 243, 260. 2C)1: prt.. front. 257 

Whitman. Lloyd C (son of Charles R ) 242 

Whitman. Roland D. (son of Charles R.) 242 

'^'*' hitman. Ross C. (son of Charles R.) 242 

Willits. Warren Chafifee 115,244 

^^'inchell, Harlev Corson (son of S. R.) 53. 57, 72. 246 

Winchell Samuel Robertson .. 52. 77. 1)2. 232, 235, 238. 239. 244. 247, 260 

Winchell. Mrs. Samuel R 245, 246. 247 

Wing. Miss Alice (daughter of Charles G.) 248 

\A^ing. Charles (son of Charles G ) 248 

Wing. Charles Gordon — 

5 25. 90. 239. 247-252. 260. 261: prt.. front. 96. 257 

Wing. Mrs. Charles G 247. 261; prt.. 257 

Wing, Miss Ethelwin (daughter of Charles G.) 248 

Wing. Gordon P. (son of Charles G.) 248 

Wing, Oril (daughter of Charles G.) 248 

Wylie, Thomas 180, 252 



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